petea/sage — Issue #39: Reduce hard disk activity
Author: petea
Created: 2011-11-21 05:53:16+00:00
State: open

What steps will reproduce the problem?
- Update the feed list or click on a feed.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

I expect sage to do most operations like downloading all feeds in RAM and only writing things to disk when everything is done, i.e. all feeds are updated. Instead I have high disk I/O all the time while checking for new feeds. I also don't see why firefox should have to produce 99% disk i/o for firefox when clicking on a feed.
On fast PCs this is probably not an issue but my eeepc really suffers from this. Any disk I/O will slow it down dramatically.

What version of Sage are you using?
1.4.7b3

What version of Firefox are you using? On what operating system?
4.0b7 under ArchLinux

Original link: http://code.google.com/p/sage/issues/detail?id=40