Firefox 3 beta on Fedora 9 uses lots of IO after start

Mike Burger mburger at bubbanfriends.org
Mon Jun 9 16:40:00 UTC 2008


> I'm running Fedora 9 with the Firefox 3 beta.  After start, Firefox
> reads and writes heavily to the disk (99.99% in iotop) for almost a
> minute.  Is this known behavior and acceptable or a bug?

Keeping in mind that Firefox is now out at 3.0 RC2 (though I can't find an
RPM for it, nor a spec file to allow me to use rpmbuild against the
downloadable tarball), it may already be fixed.

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