[Bug 316802] [NEW] Liferea tries to kill my hard drive with constant seeking after long idle periods / screen saver use

[Aaron Plattner]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: liferea

On a number of different occasions, I've woken up or arrived home to
find my hard drive clicking very rapidly.  Moving the mouse to
deactivate the screensaver makes it stop.  Today, I logged in remotely
and iotop revealed the culprit to be liferea-bin:

Total DISK READ: 0 B/s | Total DISK WRITE: 56.82 K/s
  PID USER      DISK READ  DISK WRITE   SWAPIN    IO>    COMMAND
27855 aaron          0 B/s   64.39 K/s  0.00 %  0.00 % liferea-bin

Unfortunately, I accidentally bumped the mouse before I could attach to
it with strace.  I've been leaving Liferea running with the feed window
open.  No other processes were causing disk I/O according to iotop.

I'm using liferea 1.4.18-0ubuntu2 in Ubuntu 8.10 running Gnome.

** Affects: liferea (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Liferea tries to kill my hard drive with constant seeking after long idle periods / screen saver use
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/316802
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