Re: pkg/58833: e16 causes excessive disk usage

[Andrew Randrianasulu <randrianasulu%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 5:10 AM David H. Gutteridge via gnats
<gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
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> The following reply was made to PR pkg/58833; it has been noted by GNATS.
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> 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
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>  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

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>  Regards,
>
>  Dave
>