[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#671019: chromium: Excessive fsync() when scrolling

[Julian Andres Klode]

Package: chromium
Version: 18.0.1025.151~r130497-1
Severity: important

After every scroll action or tab change, chromium updates it's
Current Session file. After it has written to that file, chromium
calls fsync().

This means that chromium, in combination with power management
causes a disk in standby mode to be restarted just to write the
current window position to the disk. This excessive fsync()
calling means that using chromium on a laptop can shorten the
life time of hard disks considerably (a single cursor key
press basically increases the Start/Stop count by one).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (100, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages chromium depends on:
ii  chromium-inspector  18.0.1025.151~r130497-1
ii  gconf-service       3.2.3-4
ii  libasound2          1.0.25-2
ii  libavcodec53        5:0.8.1-4
ii  libavformat53       5:0.8.1-4
ii  libavutil51         5:0.8.1-4
ii  libbz2-1.0          1.0.6-1
ii  libc6               2.13-30
ii  libcairo2           1.12.0-2.1
ii  libcups2            1.5.2-10
ii  libdbus-1-3         1.5.12-1
ii  libevent-2.0-5      2.0.18-stable-1
ii  libexpat1           2.1.0-1
ii  libflac8            1.2.1-6
ii  libfontconfig1      2.8.0-3.1
ii  libfreetype6        2.4.9-1
ii  libgcc1             1:4.7.0-4
ii  libgconf-2-4        3.2.3-4
ii  libgcrypt11         1.5.0-3
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0  2.26.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-0        2.32.1-1
ii  libgtk2.0-0         2.24.10-1
ii  libjpeg8            8d-1
ii  libnspr4-0d         4.9-1
ii  libnss3-1d          3.13.3-1
ii  libpango1.0-0       1.30.0-1
ii  libpng12-0          1.2.49-1
ii  libpulse0           1.1-3+b1
ii  libspeex1           1.2~rc1-3
ii  libstdc++6          4.7.0-4
ii  libudev0            175-3.1
ii  libwebp2            0.1.3-3
ii  libx11-6            2:1.4.99.901-1
ii  libxext6            2:1.3.1-2
ii  libxfixes3          1:5.0-4
ii  libxml2             2.7.8.dfsg-9
ii  libxrender1         1:0.9.7-1
ii  libxslt1.1          1.1.26-8
ii  libxss1             1:1.2.2-1
ii  xdg-utils           1.1.0~rc1+git20111210-6
ii  zlib1g              1:1.2.6.dfsg-2

chromium recommends no packages.

Versions of packages chromium suggests:
pn  chromium-l10n  <none>

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/chromium/default changed [not included]

-- no debconf information

-- 
Julian Andres Klode  - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member

See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.
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