Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 29 Apr 2007 16:49:27 -0400 | From | Mark Lord <> | Subject | Re: [ext3][kernels >= 2.6.20.7 at least] KDE going comatose when FS is under heavy write load (massive starvation) |
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Lee Revell wrote: > On 4/28/07, Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> wrote: >> I most wonder, why vim fsyncs its swapfile regularly (blocking typing >> during that) and doesn't fsync the resulting file on :w :-/ > > Never seen this. Why would fsync block typing unless vim was doing > disk IO for every keystroke?
It does do that, for the crash-recovery files it maintains. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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