How To Stop Chrome Thrashing to Disk
Ah, sweet relief!
Filemon tells me that Mozy and/or Google Desktop was thrashing while watching parts of Google Chrome’s Safe Browsing stuff so I set it so that Mozy doesn’t watch that stuff. I also disabled Chrome’s Phishing and Malware protection. Now my computer has stopped its insessent disk thrashing (at least for now)
I’m using Chrome 1.0.154.48 and Mozy 1.10.4.2.
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Google Chrome will thrash to disk a lot to disk, at least in version 0.2.149.27, build 1583 (the first publically available beta) in Windows XP. It is so bad that my entire computer locks up a bit and becomes unresponsive. Disabling phishing and malware protection seems to stop the thrashing:
- Click on the monkey-wrench icon to the right of the address bar.
- Choose “Options” from the menu.
- Click the “Under the Hood” tab
- Disable the “Enable phishing and malware protection” check-box