Adblock Plus causing cfprefsd to write a lot of data to disk

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fumoboy007
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Adblock Plus causing cfprefsd to write a lot of data to disk

Post by fumoboy007 »

I am seeing a significant amount of data being written to disk by cfprefsd when Adblock Plus is enabled. For example, over the course of 2 days, 4.5 GB was written by cfprefsd.

I skimmed over the code and noticed that we are syncing the filter lists every hour. I also looked at the modification date of Adblock Plus’s preferences file and it kept changing every hour.

Can we increase this time interval to something more reasonable like a few days? I should be able to use Adblock Plus without decreasing the lifespan of my SSD. :)

Adblock Plus Version: 1.8.10
OS X Version: 10.10.2
Filter Lists: EasyList
Scump
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Joined: Sat Sep 13, 2014 3:26 pm

Re: Adblock Plus causing cfprefsd to write a lot of data to disk

Post by Scump »

You should report it there https://issues.adblockplus.org
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