From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1031393AbXD2Utb (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Apr 2007 16:49:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1031431AbXD2Utb (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Apr 2007 16:49:31 -0400 Received: from rtr.ca ([64.26.128.89]:1587 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1031393AbXD2Ut3 (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Apr 2007 16:49:29 -0400 Message-ID: <463504D7.7040002@rtr.ca> Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 16:49:27 -0400 From: Mark Lord User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070326) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lee Revell Cc: Mikulas Patocka , Andrew Morton , Mike Galbraith , LKML , Linus Torvalds , Jens Axboe , "linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [ext3][kernels >= 2.6.20.7 at least] KDE going comatose when FS is under heavy write load (massive starvation) References: <1177660767.6567.41.camel@Homer.simpson.net> <20070427013350.d0d7ac38.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <75b66ecd0704281412x33352e97kc9c646ea594ef9ee@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <75b66ecd0704281412x33352e97kc9c646ea594ef9ee@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Lee Revell wrote: > 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? It does do that, for the crash-recovery files it maintains.