Consensys, Blockchain behind Metamasek, confirmed that it would “unconsciously” release the repair of the Metamask browser extension after users reported that he was writing hundreds of gigabytes of data per day on constant disks, potentially shortening their life expectancy.

Talking to Cointelegraph, a consensus spokesman confirmed that “usually high disk activity” affects some metamas users.

One of the latest reports comes from the user under the ripper31337 handle, which he said In the GitHub errors report of June 24, that after the fresh Metamask extension installation in chrome browsers such as Chrome, Edge and Opera, they discovered that it is constantly saving data for solid drives (SSDS) in the background without user interaction.

SSD generally It lasts from five to ten years in normal conditions, but it can worsen much faster and with intensive utilize.

“Incorrect disk writing” occurred at a rate of five megabytes per second, a total of 500 gigabytes a day and 25 terabytes in three months, according to Ripper 31337.

Consensys says that incoming repair

In a statement for CointeLgraph, a consensus spokesman said that his teams are actively investigating the problem and “the amendment is published improperly.”

“While the browser extension wallets regularly write a disk condition that is expected to behave, we have noticed a recent observation divided by a small number of Metamas users who reported extremely high disk activity,” said the spokesman.

“The problem mainly applies to users in an extremely large state. We study strategies for reducing the size of the state,” they added.

Consensys said that the company is also undergoing a strategy for reducing the size of each recording operation and reduction of data download frequency when the data is not actively used.

The problem may have months

Ripper31337 reported the problem on June 24; However, another user, under the “Quanquan” handle, tiled The same problem in the review of May 9.

“MacOS chrome, with a metamask plug turned on, but not used, wrote 100 g of data to my SSD in one day. After turning off the Metamask plugin, he immediately released,” said the user in the post, translated by Google.

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It seemed that the review did not receive an answer, but two users marked it as useful.

The problem with errors is still ongoing

Another user at Github, under the popcatmaga handle, announced on July 17 that the error is still dynamic.

“The worst thing is that many users don’t even know.

A member of the Metamask team replied in the thread on July 19 and repeated that the team is currently working on solving an error.

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