Re: pkg/58833: e16 causes excessive disk usage

["Andrew Randrianasulu via gnats" <gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/58833; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Andrew Randrianasulu <randrianasulu%gmail.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, david%gutteridge.ca@localhost
Cc: pkg-manager%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, pkgsrc-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/58833: e16 causes excessive disk usage
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2024 08:22:23 +0300

 On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 5:10=E2=80=AFAM David H. Gutteridge via gnats
 <gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
 >
 > The following reply was made to PR pkg/58833; it has been noted by GNATS.
 >
 > From: "David H. Gutteridge" <david%gutteridge.ca@localhost>
 > To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
 > Cc:
 > Subject: Re: pkg/58833: e16 causes excessive disk usage
 > Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 21:05:33 -0500
 >
 >  I'm not able to reproduce this with a reasonably up-to-date version of
 >  the package (1.0.30) on amd64 running 10.99.12. I was also running that
 >  for about a month on another machine (amd64 running 9.4_STABLE), and
 >  didn't notice such an issue there, either. On the 10.99.12 laptop, I
 >  observe with iostat that there is very little disk activity occurring
 >  when the wm is active. (It is comparable to ctwm for me.)
 >
 >  Are you certain it's really e16 that's causing all the disk activity?
 >  Have you traced it to see what specifically is happening?
 
 I tried dtrace but I really do not understand how it works - existing
 iotop script from dtracetoolkit [0] does not work as-is, and I do not
 know how to convince fstat and friends to tell me *who* writes to disk
 ....
 
 For now I use fluxbox
 
 [0] https://github.com/opendtrace/toolkit/blob/master/iotop
 
 >
 >  Regards,
 >
 >  Dave
 >