Re: Gkrellm reports memory and ramdisk as disk writing

Am 20.12.2015 um 10:33 schrieb Usama Akkad:
> 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
You may give 'iotop' a try to find out, who is responsible for the disk
activity. Or try 'iostat'.

HTH,
 guenter

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