Brave writes to disk very often

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Issue : Brave writes to disk very often

  1. Open Brave and turn off all extensions.
  2. Change Brave homepage to about:blank
  3. Close Brave then run this command : sudo iotop -aP
  4. Re-open Brave and watch for 5min as Brave disk writes climb in iotop

It seems like it is writing to disk every ~45 seconds or so.

These measurements were not taken on the ‘first run’ of Brave but after it had been opened / closed several times. I just double checked Brave Beta on Artix (Arch) and it says Crash Reporting is turned off.

Expected result:

After the page loads very little will be written to disk.

Brave Version( check About Brave):

Artix (Arch AUR package)
Brave 1.80.105 (Official Build) beta (64-bit)

MX Linux (Debian Stable)
Brave 1.79.123 (Official Build)

Additional Information:

Tested on :

Artix (Arch) kernel 6.14.6 using KDE Plasma
MX Linux (Debian Stable) kernel 6.1.0 using XFCE

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Testing again.

  • Open my profile directory. Sort by last modified. This file keeps getting updated.

/home/anon/.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/Local State

No other folders or files have been written to. Every time I reload the file manager the ‘modified time’ for this file is very recent (within 1 min, or less)

From 11:25 to 11:41 brave wrote ~30MB while sitting at about:blank

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I opened another Chromium based browser and left it sitting for ~10 mins. In that time it wrote 2.86MB data.

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@htx80nerd

Un-explained writing issue - happening on a Windows OS machine:
‘Brave continuously creating too many temp files’

But your issue is NOT about any increasing size of Brave Browser user data storage space - correct?

Your issue is about continuous writing to the Local State file. Si?

In a Brave Browser New Window, go to brave://local-state and copy all of the content . . . pasting into a text editor . . . and saving the text file ← give it a chronological name, like 20250613-0405_BB_Local_State.txt . . . so you can compare the progress of the content.

Are you monitoring the Brave Browser Task Manager?

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