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You can answer all of these questions by running a filesystem or system call trace on Chrome processes, which will be more accurate than listening for the file
by jitl 4y ago
You can answer all of these questions by running a filesystem or system call trace on Chrome processes, which will be more accurate than listening for the file access with your ears. Without such evidence you are jumping to wild conclusions.
On macOS, use Activity Monitor to inspect the process and it will show you a list of open files. You can also use lsof, strace, dtrace, depending on your OS. I don’t know about Windows.
You could also try defragging your hard drive.
- Thoreandan 4y agoOn Windows, the Resource Monitor will let you watch most filesystem activity, filtered by process. Some types of I/O show up as being by the 'System' (pid 4) process as well.
- sebazzz 4y agoThe best way is Sysinternals Procmon, as it literally lists every registry and file I/O call.
- winternett 4y agoIf my car engine started running in the middle of the night in my garage when I expect the car to be off, naturally I'd assume it was a plot hatched by automakers in conjunction with gas suppliers in order to increase profits on gas consumption, either that or a plot to kill me with carbon monoxide poisoning while I sleep... Call me a cynic I guess. If Chrome in task manager shows a lot of disk usage when nothing is being done in the browser I'd naturally think the worst of them. Call me cynical, but hey, there are countless stories of Google not exactly behaving itself as a company.
- avinassh 4y ago> by running a filesystem or system call trace on Chrome processes how do you do this?
- jitl 4y agoI gave some pointers in the next paragraph.