KDevelop causing lengthy disk writes?!

Nick Savoiu savoiu at yahoo.com
Wed Apr 22 20:08:06 BST 2009 

I use KDevelop on a custom project. I've noticed that when I start debugging the project from within KDevelop there is a huge amount of disk writes for more than a minute (sometimes as long as 10 minutes). As soon as the program starts debugging (i.e. main() breakpoint is hit) the writes cease.

I can't pin the problem 100% on KDevelop but when I run gdb on the same project from the command line there's no such disk writing activity. I also used strace during the 'writing' activity on both gdb and kdevelop and only kdevelop showed any 'writes'. 

I've attached the 'grep write strace.kdevelop | sort -u' below but I can't make much of it. GDB has no writes.

Any ideas what could be going on? Is there a way to pinpoint which process is doing the writes (at a rate of 12MB/s)? I'm using KDE 3.5.10/KDevelop 3.5.4 on 

Linux tahoe 2.6.9-55.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri Apr 20 16:36:54 EDT 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Thanks,
Nick

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write(3, ";\3\5\0\30\4`\1\0\0\0\0\321\7\320\7\220\5\275\0\234\6\5"..., 12284) = 12284
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write(3, "F\30\5\0\204*a\1\v\0`\1\0\0\0\0I\0\27\0005\30\4\0\210*"..., 796) = 796
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write(3, "F\30\5\0\212*a\1\v\0`\1\0\0\0\0y\0\27\0005\30\4\0\222*"..., 808) = 808
write(3, "F\30\5\0\212*a\1\v\0`\1\0\0\0\0y\0\27\0005\30\4\0\224*"..., 800) = 800
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write(3, "F\30\5\0\251)a\1\v\0`\1\0\0\0\0I\0\27\0005\30\4\0\255)"..., 796) = 796
write(3, "F\30\5\0\257)a\1\v\0`\1\0\0\0\0y\0\27\0005\30\4\0\263)"..., 804) = 804
write(3, "F\30\5\0\257)a\1\v\0`\1\0\0\0\0y\0\27\0005\30\4\0\265)"..., 804) = 804
write(3, "F\30\5\0\257)a\1\v\0`\1\0\0\0\0y\0\27\0005\30\4\0\267)"..., 808) = 808
write(3, "F\30\5\0\257)a\1\v\0`\1\0\0\0\0y\0\27\0005\30\4\0\271)"..., 800) = 800
write(3, "F\30\5\0\257)a\1\v\0`\1\0\0\0\0y\0\27\0005\30\4\0\273)"..., 804) = 804
write(3, "F\30\5\0\275)a\1\v\0`\1\0\0\0\0\30\0\30\0008)\4\0\31\4"..., 120) = 120
write(3, "F\30\5\0\275)a\1\v\0`\1\0\0\0\0\30\0\30\0F)\5\0\275)a\1"..., 104) = 104
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write(3, "F\30\5\0\36*a\1\v\0`\1\0\0\0\0y\0\27\0005\30\4\0**a\1^"..., 804) = 804
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write(3, "F\30\5\0\360*a\1\v\0`\1\0\0\0\0I\0\27\0005\30\4\0\364*"..., 796) = 796
write(3, "F\30\5\0\366*a\1\v\0`\1\0\0\0\0y\0\27\0005\30\4\0\0+a\1"..., 800) = 800
write(3, "F\30\5\0\366*a\1\v\0`\1\0\0\0\0y\0\27\0005\30\4\0\2+a\1"..., 804) = 804
write(3, "F\30\5\0\366*a\1\v\0`\1\0\0\0\0y\0\27\0005\30\4\0\372*"..., 804) = 804
write(3, "F\30\5\0\366*a\1\v\0`\1\0\0\0\0y\0\27\0005\30\4\0\374*"..., 804) = 804
write(3, "F\30\5\0\366*a\1\v\0`\1\0\0\0\0y\0\27\0005\30\4\0\376*"..., 808) = 808
write(3, "F\30\5\0\4+a\1\v\0`\1\0\0\0\0\30\0\30\0008*\4\0\31\4`\1"..., 120) = 120
write(3, "F\30\5\0\4+a\1\v\0`\1\0\0\0\0\30\0\30\0F*\5\0\4+a\1\340"..., 104) = 104
write(3, "F\30\5\0\4+a\1\v\0`\1\0\0\0\0\30\0\30\0F*\5\0\4+a\1\340"..., 156) = 156
write(3, "F\3\5\0\330)a\1\v\0`\1\0\0\0\0\27\0w\0008\6\4\0\31\4`\1"..., 776) = 776
write(3, "\24\0\6\0\37\0`\1\347\0\0\0\4\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\4\0\0", 24) = 24
write(3, "\24\0\6\0\37\0`\1m\0\0\0m\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\2\0\0\0", 24) = 24
write(3, "\24\0\6\0^\1\0\0-\1\0\0!\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\2\0\0\0", 24) = 24
write(3, "\f\0\4\0,\5`\1@\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\f\0\4\0-\5`\1@\0\10\0\0\0"..., 48) = 48
write(3, "\f\0\4\0,\5`\1@\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\f\0\4\0-\5`\1@\0\3\0\0\0"..., 48) = 48
write(6, "\0", 1)                       = 1

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