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For some reason, gnome-settings-daemon reads ~/.thumbnails on login, and ~/.thumbnails was unbounded in size. Mine was 700M when I learned what caused all the d

by Zak 15y ago

For some reason, gnome-settings-daemon reads ~/.thumbnails on login, and ~/.thumbnails was unbounded in size. Mine was 700M when I learned what caused all the disk IO. I think a lot of the perception of text config files being slow may have more to do with that than the actual performance of the configuration system. The middle ground would be to cache settings in a binary file.

rbanffy 15y ago
Why would it read 700MB of stuff right after login?
- Zak 15y ago
  I don't know why. I just know that it does. The problem is described here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/505085 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-dae...