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From: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
Subject: Re: [ext3][kernels >= 2.6.20.7 at least] KDE going comatose when
 FS is under heavy write load (massive starvation)
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 16:49:27 -0400
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Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>,
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To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
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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.