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DateSat, 4 Aug 2007 12:33:47 +0200
FromIngo Molnar <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8
* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

> [ my personal interest in this is the following regression: every time 
>   i start a large kernel build with DEBUG_INFO on a quad-core 4GB RAM 
>   box, i get up to 30 seconds complete pauses in Vim (and most other 
>   tasks), during plain editing of the source code. (which happens when 
>   Vim tries to write() to its swap/undo-file.) ]

hm, it turns out that it's due to vim doing an occasional fsync not only 
on writeout, but during normal use too. "set nofsync" in the .vimrc 
solves this problem.

	Ingo
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