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zx2c4 on Sept 23, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Heavy SSD Writes from Firefox

I have fixed this issue forever. I got a Thinkpad P50 with 64 gigs of ram. So, I just mount a tmpfs over ~/.cache.

I actually use a tmpfs for a few things:

    $ grep tmpfs /etc/fstab
    tmpfs	/tmp			tmpfs	nodev,nosuid,mode=1777,noatime	0 0
    tmpfs	/var/tmp/portage	tmpfs	noatime	0 0
    tmpfs	/home/zx2c4/.cache	tmpfs	noatime,nosuid,nodev,uid=1000,gid=1000,mode=0755	0 0

Yoric on Sept 23, 2016 | [–]

Fwiw, Session Restore doesn't hit ~/.cache at all. (Afaict, I'm the last person who changed how Session Restore writes its files).

saynsedit on Sept 23, 2016 | [–]

Are these writes happening in ~/.cache?

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