On 17/08/2021 15:03, Marco Möller wrote:
I have no experience with SSD, but running my Debian Desktop from a USB Memory Stick since years, please allow me to share information which supports the suggestion of Linux-Fan to also investigate if there is extraordinary I/O taking place and maybe could be avoided: In the past I found extreme(!) I/O to be produced by Firefox, when it is writing its cache, and when it is writing its session restore information. These writes to my observation occure all the time, kind of nonstop! I could get it very satisfactorily reduced by applying a tool called "Profile Sync Daemon" (psd) from package "profile-sync-daemon". While it is packaged for Debian, as a starting point to study its documentation I suggest to better look it up in the Arch Linux Wiki.
Firefox setting which determines how often write session data to disk is: browser.sessionstore.interval Default setting is value of 15000 = 15 seconds, not that bad. But still I changed that to 10 minutes (value of 600000). If I lose an open tab once in a year when Firefox crashes, so be it. To be honest, I haven't seen Fx crash in a year, or more. -- With kindest regards, piorunz. ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The universal operating system ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://www.debian.org ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀
