Wow. I'm a Spotify on Linux user and I've been trying to track down this issue for months. System Load Indicator showed huge write spikes, but they were brief e

Wow. I'm a Spotify on Linux user and I've been trying to track down this issue for months. System Load Indicator showed huge write spikes, but they were brief enough that I hadn't yet caught the culprit red-handed in iotop. They bring I/O to a crawl for a second or two though. Look what I found with a `cat /proc/$pid/io` on the main spotify process: rchar: 315169616727 wchar: 236191291851 syscr: 320352243 syscw: 330963886 read_bytes: 945213440 write_bytes: 230711586816 cancelled_write_bytes: 51481772032 That's 230GB written over 6 days of uptime. Granted, some of that is to the network, to an audio device, or just normal download caching. Still...good grief.