Public bug reported: gnome-keyring writes something to the disk with about 5 Mb/s for a long time which makes whole system unresposible or hard to work with.
yurka@homeserver:~$ aptitude show gnome-keyring [ 0%] Building dependency tree Package: gnome-keyring New: yes State: installed Automatically installed: no Version: 3.2.2-2ubuntu1 Priority: optional Section: gnome Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-disc...@lists.ubuntu.com> Uncompressed Size: 4,284 k Depends: dconf-gsettings-backend | gsettings-backend, libc6 (>= 2.4), libcap-ng0, libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.1.1), libgck-1-0 (>= 2.91.1), libgcr-3-1 (>= 3.2.2), libgcrypt11 (>= 1.4.5), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.31.2), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.0.0), dbus-x11, libcap2-bin Recommends: libpam-gnome-keyring Conflicts: gnome-keyring Breaks: libgnome-keyring0 (< 3.0), libgnome-keyring0 (< 3.0), seahorse-plugins (< 3.0), seahorse-plugins (< 3.0) Description: GNOME keyring services (daemon and tools) gnome-keyring is a daemon in the session, similar to ssh-agent, and other applications can use it to store passwords and other sensitive information. ** Affects: gnome-keyring (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-keyring in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/958019 Title: High I\O usage of gnome-keyring in 12.04 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-keyring/+bug/958019/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs