[BUG] Excessive Disk Writes

[boomam]

Title

Excessive Disk Writes

Platform

Website

Server Installation Method

Docker

Version

1.11.1

Troubleshooting

• I have examined logs and tried to find the issue
• I have reviewed opened and closed issues
• I have tried restarting the application
• I have read Known Issues (Known Issues (Read Before Posting) #296)

The Problem

Container seems to do an excessive amount of disk writes.
In a 2h period, with status monitoring on, it writes (in my deployment at least) 2GB of data.

After turning off status-monitoring, it still writes 1GB an hour.

How to Reproduce

Use Termix.

On host CLI -
docker stats --format "table {{.Name}}\t{{.BlockIO}}"
Output after 1h of Termix running shows -

NAME             BLOCK I/O 
termix           188MB / 941MB 

Additional Context

No response

[boomam]

To add more to this - Termix has now been online for 2 days. It has written 57Gb.
That calculates to 1.18Gb per hour.

The reason that this is an issue, is that it causes unnecessary wear on anyone running Termix on a storage medium that has a finite lifespan of writes...like an SSD.

[ZacharyZcR]

Thank you very much for bringing this to my attention. This is a serious issue, and I will begin troubleshooting and fixing it immediately.

[LukeGus]

For the time being, you can use the dev-1.11.2 docker tag/image. It's in beta testing currently and fixes this issues.

[boomam]

@LukeGus, will the dev1.11.2 image be updatable to the next release?

[LukeGus]

@LukeGus, will the dev1.11.2 image be updatable to the next release?

Yes.

[boomam]

I can confirm that the fix in dev1.11.2 works.
Containers been running for 5h. Before it would have accumulated 5-6Gb+ of disk writes.
Now, its written 18Mb.