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I start google it, and find out that it is SQL temp files, and stuff, and Firefox create such things. It appears, and immediately swaps with different with different letters in name, and it happens in constant cycle. Then i noticed that in system temp folders root (which one is originally c:\windows\temp) appears and disappears etilsq files 0 bite size. So i moved temps to RAMdisk and page file back to ssd.
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vars) to it, and page file.Ĭhecking task manager shown me that MsMpEng.exe do something hard with disk, ~70mb/s Yesterday noticed that my HHD start slowing down whole system. (both are new profiles, on chrome and on Firefox, and I restarted the machine and reset the profiles before every re-run) It seams to me that Defender is even more active with Firefox after Cloud-Delivered Protection and Automatic Sample Submission is off.įor Chrome Defender does not seam to use nearly as much resources. I did some recordings to show how Firefox and Chrome impact `Antimalware Service Executable` - Firefox triggers it way more!Īnd there might also be a relation to Defernder settings. So the files might be part of the Defender activity. However, when Firefox is running, `Antimalware Service Executable` seams way more active, when doing basically the same browsing. I did a comparison with chrome today, and for both browsers I see those sqlite files. I also check to only exclude the profile directory, which reduced the `Antimalware Service Executable` - Activity, but it is still around 10-15% when browsing this way. I first raised this as a question in slack and so far Randell Jesup failed to be able to reproduce on his machine:
High disk usage by firefox pro#
I am on Windowns 10 on Surface Pro 4, running the current Nightly Here is a recording of opening Nightly and navigating to a few websites, with disk and cpu activity visible. (something most of our users will probably not do) I reproduced this in a new profile, and so far the only thing that helped is excluding the Firefox process from Windows Defender Antivirus. This is considerably slowing me down and makes Firefox feel really slow.
High disk usage by firefox windows 10#
I noticed that for some time now most of the time Firefox is active, the Windows 10 built in `Antimalware Service Executable` is using well above *30% of my CPU*, and is reading and writing random files in `Windows/Temp`, all starting with `etilqs_`.