This is the output from iotop: chromium --show-component-extension-options --enable-gpu-rasterization --no-default-browser-check --disable-pings --media-router=0 --enable-remote-extensions --load-extension chromium --show-component-extension-options --enable-gpu-rasterization --no-default-browser-check --disable-pings --media-router=0 --enable-remote-extensions --load-extension [ThreadPoolForeg] chromium --show-component-extension-options --enable-gpu-rasterization --no-default-browser-check --disable-pings --media-router=0 --enable-remote-extensions --load-extension [ThreadPoolForeg]
Some process kicks off between 9pm-10pm in the evening, and possibly other times, and does much disk activity. It maybe garbage collection, or maybe due to an extension Ghostery, but I use the same on Firefox without the same symptoms. This has been happening for a month or two. What is Chromium up to? 6.1.0-35-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.137-1 (2025-05-07) x86_64 GNU/Linux Debian 12 Chromium 136.0.7103.113 built on Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)