See bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=956713 for details on the proposed Journaled Storage mechanism. This should bring down the number of writes by an order of magnitude.
Cheers, David On 28/06/14 14:32, Tobias Besemer wrote: > Am Samstag, 28. Juni 2014 14:25:35 UTC+2 schrieb Tim Taubert: >> Tobias Besemer wrote: >> >>> The amount of I/O is always a problem! E.g. for Notebooks in battery use. >> Yes, of course. That is a known problem and we're working on it by >> increasing the write interval when running on battery and working >> towards a journaled storage. >> >> As I said before, cleaning sessionstore data on write will not buy you >> much as we write a lot when Firefox is running. This is the problem >> we're tackling in the long run and band-aid fixes won't help here. > > It is not just a question of battery! > Too much writing accesses also harms the life-time of HDs or SSDs! > > I also asked before (on the bugs) about more informations to the "journaled > storage" ... > If it is - like I think - a lot of small files, I don't like it! > A lot of small files wast a lot of un-used bytes on the storage and brings a > big fragmentation to it! This significantly slows down a system! > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > -- David Rajchenbach-Teller, PhD Performance Team, Mozilla
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