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Spotify Is Writing Massive Amounts of Junk Data To Storage Drives (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: For almost five months -- possibly longer -- the Spotify music streaming app has been assaulting users' storage devices with enough data to potentially take years off their expected lifespans. Reports of tens or in some cases hundreds of gigabytes being written in an hour aren't uncommon, and occasionally the recorded amounts are measured in terabytes. The overload happens even when Spotify is idle and isn't storing any songs locally. The behavior poses an unnecessary burden on users' storage devices, particularly solid state drives, which come with a finite amount of write capacity. Continuously writing hundreds of gigabytes of needless data to a drive every day for months or years on end has the potential to cause an SSD to die years earlier than it otherwise would. And yet, Spotify apps for Windows, Mac, and Linux have engaged in this data assault since at least the middle of June, when multiple users reported the problem in the company's official support forum. Three Ars reporters who ran Spotify on Macs and PCs had no trouble reproducing the problem reported not only in the above-mentioned Spotify forum but also on Reddit, Hacker News, and elsewhere. Typically, the app wrote from 5 to 10 GB of data in less than an hour on Ars reporters' machines, even when the app was idle. Leaving Spotify running for periods longer than a day resulted in amounts as high as 700 GB. According to comments left in the Spotify forum in the past 24 hours, the bug has been fixed in version 1.0.42, which is in the process of being rolled out.
Why the hell would you put a pagefile in a ramdisk? "Yo dawg, I heard you love pages?"
What part of "shall not be infringed" is so hard to understand?
Should I also move my HOSTS file to a ram disk?
pagefile on a ramdisk is awesome because if you don't have enough ram all you have to do is either add ram to need less paging or add ram to increase the size of your ramdisk - you can't go wrong! It also saves a lot of expensive hard disk storage, especially when you put the computer to sleep.
lucm, indeed.
English isn't apparently among them.
This is just Appify being an appy app app, unlike LUDDITE software that doesn't even know what an app drive is!
Apps!
I blame XML and other formats that are used for the stupid reason that "we already have XML routines so lets use it for everything"
XML is like violence - if it doesn't solve your problem, you aren't using enough of it.
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
If you're using XML to solve a problem, you actually have two problems.
That is all.