evince accesses hard disk too often

Thank you for your bug. How do you determine that evince is accessing the disk?

Am Samstag, den 09.02.2008, 12:46 +0000 schrieb Sebastien Bacher:
> Thank you for your bug. How do you determine that evince is accessing
> the disk?

acoustically... ;-) and by the fact that the disk always spins up
approx. 1 second after changing a page.

BTW: I'm using the 64 bit version on a Samsung Q35Pro, using laptop mode
on battery power, if it makes any difference.

Thanks in advance,
Tomas

Does continuous has the issue?

Am Samstag, den 09.02.2008, 14:19 +0000 schrieb Sebastien Bacher:
> Does continuous has the issue?
>

>From what I can tell yes.

After doing a strace evince apparently writes to
~/.gnome2/evince/ev-metadata.xml after changing the page (here it's
about 36K big), so my guess is that it's too large for the write cache
(but I don't really know much about these things...).

Here's the part of strace after changing the page:

        open("/home/tomas/.gnome2/evince/ev-metadata.xml", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0666) = 16
        fstat(16, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
        mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x2aaaac661000
        write(16, "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>\n<metadata>"..., 4096) = 4096
        write(16, "\" type=\"gdouble\" value=\"1.726190"..., 4096) = 4096
        write(16, "alue=\"1162\"/>\n <entry key=\"si"..., 4096) = 4096
        write(16, "op/2007-WS/MST%201/Klausuren/Kla"..., 4096) = 4096
        write(16, "t uri=\"file:///tmp/fontfolio11_f"..., 4096) = 4096
        write(16, "nt\" value=\"1\"/>\n <entry key=\""..., 4096) = 4096
        write(16, "\"window_width\" type=\"gint\" value"..., 4096) = 4096
        write(16, "5124851367419738\"/>\n <entry k"..., 4096) = 4096
        write(16, "idth\" type=\"gint\" value=\"1280\"/>"..., 3126) = 3126
        close(16) = 0
        munmap(0x2aaaac661000, 4096) = 0
        ioctl(3, FIONREAD, [160]) = 0

Hope this helps,
Tomas

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Thanks in advance.

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