From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030413AbXD1VMm (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Apr 2007 17:12:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030726AbXD1VMm (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Apr 2007 17:12:42 -0400 Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.238]:62934 "EHLO nz-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030413AbXD1VMk (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Apr 2007 17:12:40 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=f9OcxpKsLnmpi+92mmuFkMnO1UIVtMzIrjfFf/Eqdb2gHsn2c07ZEOAqzkE1PaqweeIp6zdLbhEk8YLDxowu5OLn1DglsqCTQYnd5fquJ86FNQVTE04cywdT7MrkyaZ4tnXvnpRO1JW79n17aeJuefCqdaF18PCIpgJE504zoig= Message-ID: <75b66ecd0704281412x33352e97kc9c646ea594ef9ee@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 17:12:34 -0400 From: "Lee Revell" To: "Mikulas Patocka" Subject: Re: [ext3][kernels >= 2.6.20.7 at least] KDE going comatose when FS is under heavy write load (massive starvation) Cc: "Andrew Morton" , "Mike Galbraith" , LKML , "Linus Torvalds" , "Jens Axboe" , "linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1177660767.6567.41.camel@Homer.simpson.net> <20070427013350.d0d7ac38.akpm@linux-foundation.org> X-Google-Sender-Auth: e35a2cc71c28a908 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 4/28/07, Mikulas Patocka 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? Lee