Consensys, the blockchain firm behind the metamask, confirmed that it was “close” release of an arrangement for the extension of the metamask browser after reported by users who write hundreds of gigabytes of data each day on their solid-state drive, which potentially shorten their lifetime.
In a conversation with the cointelegraph, a Consensys spokesman confirmed that there is a “common high disk activity” that affects some metamask users.
One of the latest reports came from a user under the handle ripper31337, which Says In a Github bug report on June 24th after a fresh installation of Metamask extension In chromium-based browsers, such as Chrome, Edge and Opera, they have found that it continues to write data on solid state drives (SSD) in the background without the user interaction.
The “abnormal disk writing” occurred at the rate of five megabytes per second, covering 500 gigabytes days and 25 terabytes in three months, according to RIPPER31337.
An SSD Usually It takes five to ten years under normal conditions, but can be faster and failure with intense use.
The Consensys said the arrangement would come in
In a statement to Cointelegraph, a Consensys spokesman said its teams were actively investigating the issue and that an “repair was released properly.”
“While browser’s extension wallets regularly write the state on the disk, which is expected to practice, we have noticed a recent observation shared by a small number of metamask users who have reported unusual high disk activity,” the spokesman said.
“The majority issue affects users with unusual states. We are exploring techniques for reducing state size,” they added.
Consensys said the company is also in the process of exploring techniques for reducing the size of each writing operation and reducing data extraction frequency when data is not actively used.
The problem may be month
Ripper31337 reported the issue on June 24; However, another user, under the handle “Quanquan,” That -flag The same problem with a review on May 9.
“Macos’s Chrome, which turned on the metamask plug-in, but was not used, wrote 100g of data on my SSD one day. After not disableing the metamask plug-in, it slowed down immediately,” said the user in the post, translated by Google.
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The review does not appear to receive a response, but the two users have failed it as benefit.
The bug issue is still ongoing
Another user in GitHub, under the Popcatmaga handle, reported on July 17 that the bug was still active.
“The worst part is that many users don’t know it is happening. My browser with extension is running 24/7, and literally destroyed 50% of my SSD’s lifetime. Fix this mess – seriously, it’s not acceptable -accept,” they said.
A member of the Metamask team responded to the thread on July 19 and again said the team is currently working on a solution to fix the bug.
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