Re: Gkrellm reports memory and ramdisk as disk writing

Yeah and gkrellm lets you monitor all that easily as it should.

Go study browser configuration options. You can start with --disk-cache-dir=

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