* Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
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