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Re:Heavy SSD Writes from Firefox by brucedawson on Friday September 23, 2016 @09:47PM (#12569068)
> Chrome, on my system, is even more abusive.

The OP is complaining about excessive write traffic, which wastes power, steals disk-time from other applications, and may wear out SSDs prematurely.

A large profile file does not imply excessive write traffic, so it's not clear from your report that Chrome is hitting the same problem at all. Definitely worth watching, but big-file != excessive-writes.

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Re:Heavy SSD Writes from Firefox by nchelluri on Friday September 23, 2016 @10:43PM (#12569190)
I think your point is valid, but even so the person you were replying to turned out to be correct.

There's an edit at the end of the article:

> Currently in the middle of a Chrome Version 52.0.2743.116 m test. We have been able to see a pace of over 24GB/ day of writes on this machine...

24GB is higher than the 10-12 he was complaining about from Firefox, even.

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