On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 17:56:01 +0300 Uoti Urpala <uoti.urp...@pp1.inet.fi>
wrote:
> Package: neverball
> Version: 1.6.0-8
> Severity: important
> 
> Neverball automatically saves a replay of the latest run on disk while
> playing. In the Debian package, the binary constantly calls fsync() on
> this file, which very seriously degrades performance. If the issue is
> not obvious when trying to reproduce, try on a machine with as slow a
> spinning disk as possible.
> 
> This is likely a libphysfs issue. Neverball code contains no direct
> fsync() calls. Neverball upstream has changed the default filesystem
> backend to be stdio instead of libphysfs, and current upstream code
> (with no physfs) does not display the problem.
> 
> In case this depends on precise libphysfs version, seen with
> libphysfs1 3.0.1-2 on AMD64.

Why did you report this bug against neverball instead of libphysfs when
all the issues you describe are related to libphysfs?

Markus

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