Re: ???UNSURE??? Re: Unwanted activation of root-processes getting highly activated

[andreas-stoewing]

Listed processes get already highly active during the start of pale moon, before the surfing itself. No webside is called, when it already happens. 


Gesendet von Andreas

Am 14.10.2021 20:27 schrieb Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>:
>
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 12:40:08PM +0000, secret wrote: 
> > Hi, 
> > Firejail must have caused the high activity. 
> > Whenever I stop it (process firejail), they lower to origin. 
>
> This is what I had been trying to tell you repeatedly.  Firejail 
> (firefox run in a sandbox/jail) is a browser which will do various 
> activities on behalf of whatever web pages that you visit.  Some of 
> these webpages may have javascript, or other web-based application 
> code which is causing a lot of file I/O.  So when visiting that web 
> page causes firefox to execute a lot of file I/O, on behalf of the web 
> site, in order to service the file I/O, the kernel will do that work 
> in the kernel threads that you seem to be objecting to having 
> activity. 
>
> However, those kernel threads being active when there is file I/O is 
> *normal*.  It is the system working as intended.  I don't know why you 
> would be objecting to those kernel threads being active, but if you 
> don't like it, don't do any file I/O, and if that means not using 
> firefox (or "firejail") to visit those web sites. 
>
> Regards, 
>
> - Ted