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wwqax

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Registered: 2020-07-06

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Xfce4-Panel High Disk Write

Hello,
I observed that xfce4-panel disk write is very high. Is that normal?
Disk write total: 36.5GB
Disk read total: 3.3GB

ToZ

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Registered: 2011-06-02

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Re: Xfce4-Panel High Disk Write

That seems excessive - it should be nowhere near that (if that data is accurate). I believe the only things that the panel would write out would be settings changes (minimal) or error/warning messages.

Which distro and which version of Xfce are you running?
Does your distro have an ~/.xsession-errors file and if so, what is the size of the file?

Edit: do you get the same results from:

cat /proc/$(pidof xfce4-panel)/io

Last edited by ToZ (2021-12-31 17:57:17)

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wwqax

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Re: Xfce4-Panel High Disk Write

I'm using Linux Mint Xfce 4.16.
~/.xsession-errors is around 1.5 mb

Yes, i got the same result
➜  ~ cat /proc/$(pidof xfce4-panel)/io
rchar: 512743680977
wchar: 86418092567
syscr: 322567997
syscw: 324159066
read_bytes: 4637851648
write_bytes: 52475752448
cancelled_write_bytes: 1995108352

ToZ

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Re: Xfce4-Panel High Disk Write

What is the uptime of this system? Any chance you could upload the contents of ~/.xsession-errors somewhere and post the link back?

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wwqax

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Re: Xfce4-Panel High Disk Write

I just restarted my system, but for that error I think my uptime was like 4 or 5 days.