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#134 Extreme hard drive activity
Hello, first time member here, long-time Bluefish user.
Lately, even a small active file edit triggers hard-drive activity that seems to inspect all files in the current, and lower-level folders. This activity often takes several minutes to finish. CPU usage often 50% or more, for the duration. Bluefish 2.4.1, Linux Mint 22.3, AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core Processor, 32GB RAM.
that is not something Bluefish should do. An open file is checked regularly if it is modified on disk. If you switch to another document, the parent directory for that specific file is refreshed in the filebrowser. There should be no more file activity than what I just described. GTK also does file lookups, such as loading icons.
A way to debug this is to use 'strace'
strace -e %file /usr/local/bin/bluefish