I made a strace log about gnome-settings-daemon a few days ago when it was doing this mysterious disk reading. I found that it was reading the whole .thumbnails directory, which, on my laptop contains 12,429 items, totalling 210.8 MB. I'll try now to clean it (or just rename it to be safe) and I'll watch out for excessive disk usage by g-s-d.
I don't know what g-s-d might do with the thumbnails, it might cache them, check if they are ok or something strange. The sensible operation would be to it check if the original file still exists and delete the orphaned thumbnails, but since I have 12k+ thumbnails, this doesn't seem probable. You can do an strace tracking by 'strace -p $(pidof gnome-settings- daemon) -o strace-g-s-d.log' which will save the output to strace-g-s-d.log file (don't forget that you need to press ctrl+c to stop tracking!). -- gnome-settings-daemon extensive disk usage https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/505085 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
