Terminal write a lot to gsetting

[mrquyetdx]

I'm using terminal version 5.3.3 from Arch Aur (pantheon-terminal-git r1769.11e3666-1). Each time terminal runs, it writes a lot to gsetting entry: /io/elementary/terminal/saved-state/tabs. Here is an extract from G_MESSAGES_DEBUG=all io.elementary.terminal: (io.elementary.terminal:22536): dconf-DEBUG: 16:32:28.396: change_fast (io.elementary.terminal:22536): dconf-DEBUG: 16:32:28.396: change_notify: /io/elementary/terminal/saved-state/tabs and there is a lot of this. An effect is 50% of disk I/O is caused by this behaviour.

[dmchmk]

Same on 5.3.4, on Ubuntu 18.10 from ppa.launchpad.net/elementary-os/stable/ubuntu

[leaeasy]

It is caused by save_state function

[syhrz]

Reproduced in Archlinux with pantheon-terminal-5.4.0-1. it's writing almost 60MBps.

[jeremypw]

Sounds like some kind of loop - the state is not really changing that much normally. Is this happening when the app is static or is something happening?

[jeremypw]

Doesn't happen on ElementaryOS 5.1 so will have to investigate on Ubuntu. So, does the state of `io/elementary/terminal/saved-state/tabs' continuously change visibly when viewed with with dconf-editor even when the tab locations are not changing?

[jeremypw]

The latest version from the given ppa is based on Ubuntu 18.04 and cannot be expected to run properly on distros with different library versions. I tried running it on Ubuntu 18.04 installing only the elementary app theme and icon theme in addition to terminal dependencies and did not see this problem.