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Firefox writes megabytes of data per minute to disk, why?

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Mar 15, 202638711 views
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(accumulated I/O) on Linux shows after about 10 min. of browsing Internet: I'm quite surprised by the amount of data written to disk. I turned off to-disk caching, but it didn't make notable difference. I turned off / -- nothing changed. Is this rate of writing to disk normal in Firefox (10.0.1)? I…

Error Output

Total DISK READ:       0.00 B/s | Total DISK WRITE:       0.00 B/s               
  TID  PRIO  USER     DISK READ DISK WRITE>  SWAPIN      IO    COMM…

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Fix for: Firefox writes megabytes of data per minute to disk, why?

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There is a setting in Firefox that controls how often the session restore saves files. Go to and change: browser.sessionstore.interval to change how often the session is saved. On my system, the default was 15000 (milliseconds) so it was writing to …

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