{"id":2674,"date":"2009-03-18T11:13:07","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T18:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=2674"},"modified":"2009-03-18T11:13:07","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T18:13:07","slug":"how-to-stop-chrome-thrashing-to-disk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/18\/how-to-stop-chrome-thrashing-to-disk\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Stop Chrome Thrashing to Disk"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ah, sweet relief!<\/p>\n

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)<\/p>\n

I’m using Chrome 1.0.154.48 and Mozy 1.10.4.2.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

(original<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Google Chrome<\/a> \u00a0will 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:<\/p>\n

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  1. Click on the monkey-wrench icon to the right of the address bar.<\/li>\n
  2. Choose “Options” from the menu.<\/li>\n
  3. Click the “Under the Hood” tab<\/li>\n
  4. Disable the “Enable phishing and malware protection” check-box<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}