Jackson Redstar Posted June 10, 2020 Share Posted June 10, 2020 I recently have noticed FS is writing to disk like it is penning a novel. 30-50% sometimes even 100% write. (observed in the task manager) the system resource monitor just says 'system' I have checked while on black dragon, and it remains between 0-1% disk activity Anybody know what FS is doing? I don't recall this type of disk activity before but maybe just never payed attention. Even when recording video in SL I don't see this amount of disk write activity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigmoe Whitfield Posted June 10, 2020 Share Posted June 10, 2020 @Whirly Fizzle 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whirly Fizzle Posted June 11, 2020 Share Posted June 11, 2020 The usual suspect for this behaviour is your antivirus software aggressively scanning the viewer folders, especially the cache. Can you work through the steps on this wiki page to whitelist Firestorm in your antivirus software & see if this fixes the problem: https://wiki.firestormviewer.org/antivirus_whitelisting If this doesn't help, which antivirus are you using? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fritigern Gothly Posted June 11, 2020 Share Posted June 11, 2020 7 minutes ago, Whirly Fizzle said: The usual suspect for this behaviour is your antivirus software aggressively scanning the viewer folders, especially the cache. FS does this on my system too, but I run Linux and only an on-demand antivirus, ruling out the possibility that it is my AV. I have a feeling like FS is aggressively and repeatedly updating the cache, even when the assets that it's trying to update are already in the cache, which could explain why I am so slow to rez recently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
animats Posted June 11, 2020 Share Posted June 11, 2020 (edited) Most of what Firestorm writes is to the cache. I have the Firestorm cache, but nothing else, on a small SSD, which helped performance considerably. There's almost no disk I/O on the main disk after that. You get to set where Firestorm puts its cache in Preferences, so that's easy to do. Edited June 11, 2020 by animats Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Profaitchikenz Haiku Posted June 11, 2020 Share Posted June 11, 2020 10 hours ago, Whirly Fizzle said: The usual suspect for this behaviour is your antivirus software aggressively scanning the viewer folders, especially the cache. I can see that it would give a lot of read activity, but I can't see how AV scanning would cause write activity? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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