iotop shows Brave writing to disk every second, sometimes several times a second.
How can this issue be reproduced?
Start Brave
Watch disk io activity
Expected result:
Much less activity. Writes to SSD decrease expected lifetime.
Brave Version( check About Brave):
Brave Browser 112.1.50.114
Linux 6.2.10-arch1-1
Additional Information:
Data from browser activity over several hours during which most activity was through Firefox. Brave and chrome were mostly idle.
APP AMT WRITTEN NUM WRITES
firefox 11205.41 8899
chrome 331256.23 45361
brave 1339170.77 670315
@Mattches Have you received any information regarding the mentioned problem? During this time, additional messages appeared about excessive disk writes. So it would be great to know exactly what the problem is and how it can be solved.
In my opinion, constant messages along the lines of “your browser is killing my drive” need special attention from the Brave team.
I’m not an expert in this area, much less a developer, so I can’t objectively conduct my own tests. But all this can be done by the Brave developers in order to: 1) find out all the circumstances and objectively state whether there is a problem or whether all these statements are untrue, 2) protect the reputation of the product they are working on.
Being silent and ignoring such messages for a long time does not work in favor of the Brave development team.
@serhiyguryev Btw, I know I hit on this as I appreciated the info. But I am going to try to tag you in now to ask, would you be able to give more specifics on what you changed and where?
I hadn’t spent a lot of time looking but just now was trying to look for it and have other people try. But not sure where you’re seeing a toggle for 3d. And I doubt you’re just talking about hardware acceleration. Typing in 3d within the settings doesn’t really reveal anything. So just wanting to kind of confirm really quick what I’m failing to understand or am simply overlooking.