lodle/Desurium — Issue #69: Desura reads hard drive excessively on start up on 64 bit Linux system with ext4 FS
Author: utillich
Created: 2012-02-28 19:49:18+00:00
State: open

When starting up desura on (some?) 64bit Linux systems using ext4 as filesystem, the hard drive is read excessively for a couple of minutes.
This behavior was first reported on the Desura forums (http://www.desura.com/groups/desura/forum/thread/desura-reads-hard-drive-excessively-on-start-up-on-64-bit-linux-system). A workaround was suggested there: Moving .settings from desura to an ext2 partition. For my system the hard disk crunching of >6min went to <1sec.
Is there a way to properly fix this within the desura/desurium code or is this an upstream issue, if such which?

NOTE: I have not tested either the bug nor the fix with the latest desurium build, can someone please confirm this.