Last edited by marko 24th October 2021 at 01:32 AM. Firefox has its own caching place and doesn't use ~/.cache/kio_http Because I don't use any KDE browsers (very seldomly I'll use falkon or konqueror), there are no browsers dumping to ~/.cache/kio_http (or maybe it's for something else I'm not using much). I suspect the cache cleaner was intended for sane use of http caching where a browser is putting fewer things in that directory that are actually reused (different use case). So I removed the plasma widget and deleted all in ~/.cache/kio_http/* and the disk churn went away. So those things were building up to a huge number and making it hard for kio_http_cleaner to deal with. Of course that's stupid because each of those objects is immediately worthless because the next 20 minutes it just gets another one (doesn't revisit the old one). You may be familiar with this option as it is the default option that appears when you go to format a hard drive on your Mac. It turned out the Plasma weather widget I used to get the weather every 20 minutes was dumping some kind of file in ~/.cache/kio_http every time. I recently had a problem bugging me where my disk would go crazy on log into/out off KDE, I ran iotop and found that something called "kio_http_cache_cleaner" was doing it all. I would run pidstat or something to find what processes were hitting the disk.I can vouch for that, but I'd suggest "sudo iotop" be run right when you hear the disk going active doing what ever. A lot of disk activity after adding a lot of data might indicate some sort of indexing service is doing its thing.
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