[Geary] Heavy disk writes

[Vaibhav Kulkarni]

Hi,

Since I started using Geary, I observed my laptop is occasionally doing high hard-disk activity.

I tried to dig down to find out the cause, and my suspicion that Geary could be the culprit might actually be true.

Enter iotop. I ran this hard-disk io monitoring tool as follows:

  sudo iotop -ao

(Which shows the activity as "a"ccumulated quantity, and "o"nly those processes that do some activity.)

I let this run on the terminal, got back to web-surfing using chromium, and sure enough, after few minutes, I again saw my laptop hard-disk indicator LED blinking pretty vigorously. When I checked back in the terminal running iotop, to my shock, I found "geary" doing around 100 M of hard-disk writes, not once, but 4 times, each with a different TID. The second highest process, apart from geary, wrote around 4 M. So clearly Geary is doing more writes than others by a fair margin.

So my questions are, is this what is causing my hard-disk to thrash? And is this normal for Geary?

Regards,
Vaibhav