linux-ext4 - 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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Date:	Sat, 28 Apr 2007 17:12:34 -0400
From:	"Lee Revell" <rlrevell@...-job.com>
To:	"Mikulas Patocka" <mikulas@...ax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
Cc:	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Mike Galbraith" <efault@....de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Jens Axboe" <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
	"linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [ext3][kernels >= 2.6.20.7 at least] KDE going comatose when FS is under heavy write load (massive starvation)

On 4/28/07, Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@...ax.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?

Lee
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