On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 15:13 -0800, Avuton Olrich wrote: > It's funny that you mention vim. vim seems to be what _really_ makes > my reiser4 do the 'slowdown'. I call it harddrive thrashing cause > that's what my wife calls it when she hears it from 5 yards away :) > Right before saving or saving/exiting it really does this thrashing, > Thank god you said this because I didn't think this 'slowdown' was the > same thing I was experiencing.
This looks to be a similar thing with fsync(). It took approx 10 sec to save a file containing the string "Hello World" The results indicate that the time was spent in the fsync() call. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ps aux | grep vim craig 9111 0.0 0.5 17268 5936 pts/0 S+ 23:35 0:00 vim temp/testfile [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ strace -T -p 9111 2>&1 | grep fsync fsync(4) = 0 <9.726565> -- Craig Shelley EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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