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Often when downloading a game on steam my nvme drive gets pinned at 100% IO usage and my whole DE (gnome) can lock up at times. Is there a way to limit it so that this never happens?

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[–] Brosplosion@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 weeks ago

I had this happen shortly before I had an SSD failure. How old is the drive? Check the SMART health if the drive is capable.