#18186: tor browser updater handles full disk poorly --------------------------------------+-------------------------- Reporter: cypherpunks | Owner: tbb-team Type: defect | Status: new Priority: Medium | Milestone: Component: Applications/Tor Browser | Version: Severity: Normal | Resolution: Keywords: | Actual Points: Parent ID: | Points: Reviewer: | Sponsor: --------------------------------------+--------------------------
Comment (by mcs): Replying to [comment:8 torusers]: > Hello, > > I can confirm this. Just yesterday, the updated process crashed my computer. > The Linux UI was almost completely unresponsive, I managed to kill -9 the Tor process and related processes after several minutes. > > Only today, when the whole ordeal started again just seconds after starting the TBB, I checked iotop and noticed that the Tor updater was the culprit. > > *Please* disable this "staging" stuff, it definitely does more harm than good. Instead of relying on a well-running PC for a few seconds for the update process, the PC has to run many minutes or even hours for the "staging". I am sorry for your pain. I wish we had more data about how many people are affected by this, because I would prefer to leaving staging enabled by default like Mozilla does (but I could be convinced that we should do the opposite if we had more data). > Please remember that there are still many people with non-SSD HDDs, where reading and writing at the same time on the same disk is *really* slow. We do test with non-SSD drives :) Out of curiosity, is your disk nearly full or why did you add a comment to this specific ticket? And how large is your Tor Browser directory? It surprises me that making a recursive copy of the browser program files and data would cause so much I/O thrash. -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18186#comment:9> Tor Bug Tracker & Wiki <https://trac.torproject.org/> The Tor Project: anonymity online _______________________________________________ tor-bugs mailing list tor-bugs@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-bugs