[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 13040] Safari WebKit Hanging/Feverish Disk Activity/Slows entire system...

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http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13040


donnie7 at bellatlantic.net changed:

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------- Comment #18 from donnie7 at bellatlantic.net  2007-06-17 13:32 PDT -------
(In reply to comment #16)
> (In reply to comment #14)
> > And before you test, you should make a copy of ~/Library/Caches/Safari so you
> > may (more easily) recreate the issue!
> 
> Good idea.
> 
> > Was Spotlight re-indexing your hard drive when you were doing this?  Or perhaps
> > it was being triggered to re-index when the cache was being pruned since you
> > added the volume root?  (I haven't looked at the attached log files yet; not
> > sure I would know what to look for anyway.)
> 
> My Spotlight tweak was made last year so it wasn't indexing anything that I
> know of at this time, but if it monitors all low-level file ops it should at
> least be queueing deleted paths for later processing. I doubt it contributed
> significantly to the problem.
> 
> By the way, I've got ~/Library/Caches/WebKit/ as well. Isn't that the one we're
> really interested in here since I'm running a nightly? (It's size and file
> count is even smaller than my previous numbers.) The date stamps in there are
> from today while everything in ~/Library/Caches/Safari/ is at least 30 days
> old.
> 

I am the originator of this thread. I have a workable solution. I set all the
following folders in Users/Library/Caches to NO ACCESS: Metadata, Safari and
WebKit. They all now have a red circle with a minus sign through it. Works like
a charm. It's a very serious bug with the disc caching in Safari. Slows your
CPU down to a crawl. Also very difficult to reproduce and trace. But the above
procedure stops the activity cold. Took me months to figure out. But finally
won the battle! Sorry for the delay in posting a solution. I was told not to
reply to any e-mails sent from bugzilla-daemon at webkit.org. So I'm posting my
findings here today. Best wishes for everyone. Happy Fathers Day to you Dads
out there! Peace and Love. Donnie Dixon 


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