Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8

Ingo Molnar
2007-08-04T10:34:19Z

* 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