Re: Gkrellm reports memory and ramdisk as disk writing

It's a question about disk writing that gkrellm when there should
not be any actual hard disk writes

On 20-12-2015 15:38, Mohammed Fukeeslum
wrote:

What does your browser configuring ineptitude have to do with gkrellm?

On 12/20/15, Usama Akkad <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi,

This tool is great.

I've noticed disk activity when I watch live stream or youtube video. It's
very obvious on Gkrellm.
When I stop live stream disk activity stops.

However I though I can make my browser use memory only for cache storage to
save the disks some unnecessary writes.

In Firefox I set
browser.cache.disk.enable;false

But GKrellM was still reporting a disk activity even though I set it to
monitor sda only

Then I tried chromium browser with a ram disk with the following commands:

sudo mount -t tmpfs -o size=1024M tmpfs /media/ramdisk/
chromium-browser --user-data-dir=/media/ramdisk/

But I still see reported disk activity. So I wonder why this is happening
and if I can limit the activity to only what makes the disk spin.

Thank you,
Usama