Re: [ext3][kernels >= 2.6.20.7 at least] KDE going comatose when FS is under heavy write load (massive starvation)

Mark Lord
2007-04-29T20:49:31Z

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.