"constant hard disk activity by Firefox with some websites like hotmail"

With some websites the hard disc noisily operates continually and MS task manager shows almost 100% memory useage. The furious activity stops about 30 sec after the website closes. YouTube and iView show similar response. FF 9.0.1 XP3 clear cache and cookies - no effect Internet suggested disable Java plugin 1.6.0 no effect

See [[Secure Connection Failed]]
Create a new profile exclusively for the 4.0 beta version and create a desktop shortcut with -P "profile" appended to the target to launch that profile.
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Testing_pre-release_versions
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Creating_a_new_Firefox_profile_on_Windows
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Shortcut_to_a_specific_profile
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Using_multiple_profiles_-_Firefox

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I just purchased a new 27" iMac which was an upgrade for my 24" with Leopard. I have used my older machine for a good year and not noticed any hard drive activity when idle.
Now on the new machine with Snow Leopard I constantly get hard disk activty every few seconds.
This will happen from:
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3) loggin in and not running anything.
4) Computer screen in sleep mode.
5) well, all the time really.
I have looked at the activity monitor and can see spikes every 5-10 seconds.
I have turned off all processes possible, watched processes for CPU spikes, etc to no avail.
Is anyone else having the same problem and if so can they suggest a fix? I originally thought it may be something writing to a log every so often but I have no idea what and how to find it.
Using iStat just confirms the activity.
Hope you can help as this is driving me mad!
Message was edited by: RedDwarfUK

RedDwarfUK wrote:
I havent really installed much as well. Here are the list of programs I have installed.
Adium
Firefox
New icons
app cleaner
skype
spotify
chicken of the VNC
GoToMeeting
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Xmarks for safari and firefox
I would start by checking each of these items, making sure you have the latest versions of each & that they are compatible with Snow Leopard. Do the same for any Firefox extensions or any plugins associated with any of these applications. In particular, chicken of the VNC hasn't been updated since 2006 & what little compatibility info I can find for it suggests it supports only Tiger (10.4) & 10.3.9. The Download Xmarks page indicates that it is beta software.
Also note that some of these items may do more than just run as applications. On first run or install, some might install startup or login items, or preference panels that remain in effect even when the application is not running. Check /Library/StartupItems & /System/Library/StartupItems -- both are empty by default, so anything you find in them is suspect. Likewise, check the System Preferences > Accounts > Login Items tab. Anything you find in them that does not appear to come from Apple (like iTunes helper) is suspect. Also check the "Other" category of System Preferences.

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Last edited by clovenhoof (2013-03-21 18:20:26)

Ok here is what get with "lsof -c systemd-tmpfile" during this activity:
COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
systemd-t 1069 root cwd DIR 8,3 4096 2 /
systemd-t 1069 root rtd DIR 8,3 4096 2 /
systemd-t 1069 root txt REG 8,3 59504 290840 /usr/bin/systemd-tmpfiles
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systemd-t 1069 root mem REG 8,3 31744 262453 /usr/lib/librt-2.17.so
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systemd-t 1069 root mem REG 8,3 165436 262497 /usr/lib/ld-2.17.so
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* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Testing_pre-release_versions
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