Okay, I'm on fresh 13.10, just installed Liferea - slow performance and high HDD disk usage during updating is back.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to liferea in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/290666 Title: Liferea stalling, uses excessive number of fsyncs Status in Liferea Feed Reader: Unknown Status in “liferea” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: Binary package hint: liferea Ubuntu intrepid 8.10RC liferea 1.4.18-0ubuntu2 Liferea stalls easily and takes up to several minutes to start when the system is otherwise busy with disk I/O. A strace of the default session with startup and immediate exit yields >700 calls to fsync(). I expected liferea to start and handle reasonably quickly, as the website states it was a fast, easy to use news reader. Instead, I found it to be too slow for casually checking a few feeds, because it syncs the whole file system hundreds of times. Steps to reproduce: $ sudo apt-get install liferea $ stress -d 2 # or compile something $ time liferea real 6m13.769s user 0m1.920s sys 0m0.296s strace output: $ rm -rf .liferea_1.4/ $ strace -etrace=fsync -o liferea_session.strace liferea 2>&1 --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) --- --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) --- fsync(16) = 0 fsync(17) = 0 fsync(16) = 0 fsync(15) = 0 fsync(16) = 0 fsync(17) = 0 ... fsync(19) = 0 fsync(16) = 0 fsync(15) = 0 745 fsyncs in total To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/liferea/+bug/290666/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
