Hello Steve, all, Thank for your activity. But something looks strange...
I am using standard update-notifier utility from official Ubuntu repo. My PC is running 1h: vodka@vodka-PC:/proc/9489$ uptime 12:56:19 up 1:00, 1 user, load average: 0,40, 0,56, 0,60 I determined the process PID for update-notofoer: vodka@vodka-PC:~$ ps -p 9489 -f UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD vodka 9489 6656 0 12:20 tty2 00:00:00 update-notifier And look to /proc/9489/io file: vodka@vodka-PC:/proc/9489$ cat /proc/9489/io rchar: 223710992 wchar: 83357541 syscr: 33821 syscw: 22900 read_bytes: 122880 write_bytes: 85102592 cancelled_write_bytes: 79491072 i.e. script writes 85102592/1024/1024=81 megabytes to disk. 81 megabytes per hour, 81*24/1024=1.9 GB per day. I ran a strace command as follow: vodka@vodka-PC:~$ sudo strace -p 9489 -f -e trace=open,openat,creat -o /tmp/update-notifier.txt strace: Process 9489 attached with 4 threads And i see that script writes data to disk (PSA). Could you please provide your comments? ** Attachment added: "update-notifier.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-notifier/+bug/1828634/+attachment/5263056/+files/update-notifier.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1828634 Title: update-notifier runs too often on a Ubuntu To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-notifier/+bug/1828634/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
