I am suffering the same issue. snapd writing at 2 MB/s for almost 5 straight days. I have poor internet connectivity. Most of the time network monitor shows zero network activity, so snap is not "actually" downloading anything.
$snap changes ID Status Spawn Ready Summary 54 Doing today at 10:35 -04 - Auto-refresh snap "chromium" $ sudo fnotifystat Total Open Close Read Write PID Process Pathname 55.0 18.0 18.0 19.0 0.0 13786 snapd /var/lib/snapd/assertions/asserts-v0/model/16/generic/generic-classic 54.0 18.0 18.0 18.0 0.0 13786 snapd /var/lib/snapd/assertions/asserts-v0/model/16/generic/generic-classic/active 54.0 18.0 18.0 18.0 0.0 13786 snapd /var/lib/snapd/assertions/asserts-v0/serial/generic/generic-classic/d4eca5b4-8c2b-4ec1-a6b2-4ed7a8e76fbe 54.0 18.0 18.0 18.0 0.0 13786 snapd /var/lib/snapd/assertions/asserts-v0/serial/generic/generic-classic/d4eca5b4-8c2b-4ec1-a6b2-4ed7a8e76fbe/active 36.0 18.0 18.0 0.0 0.0 13786 snapd /var/lib/snapd 26.0 0.0 13.0 0.0 13.0 13786 snapd /var/lib/snapd/state.json 4.0 1.0 1.0 0.0 2.0 13786 snapd /var/lib/snapd/state.json.8s9NlHqn9hgk~ 4.0 1.0 1.0 0.0 2.0 13786 snapd /var/lib/snapd/state.json.9K7JVycntjF2~ 4.0 1.0 1.0 0.0 2.0 13786 snapd /var/lib/snapd/state.json.DQF0MS3WKj05~ 4.0 1.0 1.0 0.0 2.0 13786 snapd /var/lib/snapd/state.json.Llsbh5NnGHgK~ 4.0 1.0 1.0 0.0 2.0 13786 snapd /var/lib/snapd/state.json.hkfJT9N0htBG~ 2.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 13786 snapd /var/lib/snapd/state.json.4XgMb38QNtrW~ 2.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 13786 snapd /var/lib/snapd/state.json.6vHSRf3xbRS5~ 2.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 13786 snapd /var/lib/snapd/state.json.FwlhlyDlFXLp~ 2.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 13786 snapd /var/lib/snapd/state.json.G64fgNkBmr2x~ 2.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 13786 snapd /var/lib/snapd/state.json.Kp061JNgygDv~ 2.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 13786 snapd /var/lib/snapd/state.json.PQ5byShcJ5Ym~ 2.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 13786 snapd /var/lib/snapd/state.json.Q6PC97T8x9rm~ 2.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 13786 snapd /var/lib/snapd/state.json.RWkVcKbtsGw4~ 2.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 13786 snapd /var/lib/snapd/state.json.Wr5BSmHwg0k1~ 2.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 13786 snapd /var/lib/snapd/state.json.brJjjjMnyrmB~ 2.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 13786 snapd /var/lib/snapd/state.json.cbv2dSN9YH8r~ 2.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 13786 snapd /var/lib/snapd/state.json.pPjJXh9CQRG6~ 2.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 13786 snapd /var/lib/snapd/state.json.rwSwHlQ95nv7~ This is chewing up my SSD and my last SSD failed at only 10% write life used, so it is a real concern for me. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1839237 Title: snapd disk write usage very high on 19.04 with snapd 2.39.3 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/snapd/+bug/1839237/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
