GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 685112
resizing and moving dconf-editor's window causes constant disk writes
Last modified: 2015-02-22 12:25:55 UTC
The following actions cause a high amount of disk-writes, instantly causing dconf-service to jump to the top in iotop: 1. Resizing dconf-editor's window 2. Moving dconf-editor's window It seems that the following values are updated a disproportionate amount of times while resizing and moving the window: ca.destr.dconf-editor.height ca.destr.dconf-editor.width (I haven't been able to find the values referring to the window position) Keeping these values in view using dconf-editor while resizing the window will show a direct correlation between updating these values and the very high IO. A quick google only resulted in this related bugreport from Januari this year: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/d-conf/+bug/916944 Other GTK / Qt applications do not show this behavior. This will lock up IO and have a strong effect on desktop performance, IO may continue for quite some time after moving / resizing the window.
related: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=655046 (search terms I used did not cause that bug report to show up before I created this one, sorry for the duplicate)
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 655046 ***
[moving dconf>editor tickets to dconf-editor product. See bug 744791]