[Qt-creator] Multiple overwriting of settings on disk

Eike Ziller Eike.Ziller at qt.io
Fri Nov 24 08:20:51 CET 2017


Sounds much like https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTCREATORBUG-15594

Br, Eike

> On Nov 23, 2017, at 18:38, Карелин Павел <hkarel at yandex.ru> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> 23.11.2017 13:54, Konstantin Tokarev пишет:
>> 
>> 23.11.2017, 11:56, "Карелин Павел" <hkarel at yandex.ru>:
>>> Hi, everybody
>>> 
>>> Sometimes, during debugging, I need to change the width of the columns
>>> in the debugger (see the picture, red frame).
>>> In this case, the configuration file is overwritten multiple times (I
>>> think so).
>> This claim can and should be proven (or disproven) with strace or similar tool
> More than 40 requests per second to the file QtCreator.ini. Is it convincing enough?
> 
> strace -t -f ./qtcreator.sh 2>&1 | grep -P 'open.*QtCreator\.ini.*O_RDWR' > /tmp/QtCreator.ini.access
> cat QtCreator.ini.access | grep '19:39:57' | wc -l
> 42
> cat QtCreator.ini.access | grep '19:40:12' | wc -l
> 47
> 
>> 
>>> The hard drive is annoyingly cracking.
>> You may want to use SSD, they don't crack
> You have a special sense of humor ...
> 
>> 
>>> Is it possible to reduce the frequency of overwriting settings?
>> FWIW this software can help with any application that you think is writing too often:
>> 
>> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Anything-sync-daemon
> Provided that in QtCreator this problem in principle will not be solved (apparently all work on SSD), then yes - the tool will help.
> 
>> 
>>> I use QtCreator 4.4, gitrev: 6afdb8bdf957909d086684ada10cf86f132c3efe
>>> 
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