Bug#907057: neverball: Constant fsync calls seriously degrade performance

2018-08-29 Thread Uoti Urpala
On Wed, 2018-08-29 at 15:27 +0200, Markus Koschany wrote: > Am 29.08.2018 um 15:08 schrieb Uoti Urpala: > > If FPS stays sufficiently high that it's not a visible issue, you could > > try running the binary under strace for example and verify that there > > are lots of fsync calls while playing.

Bug#907057: neverball: Constant fsync calls seriously degrade performance

2018-08-29 Thread Markus Koschany
Am 29.08.2018 um 15:08 schrieb Uoti Urpala: > On Mon, 2018-08-27 at 23:13 +0200, Markus Koschany wrote: >> Am 27.08.2018 um 03:36 schrieb Uoti Urpala: >>> Neverball is broken so at least a bug blocked by a physfs bug would be >>> appropriate in any case, and I assume that the easiest way to fix

Bug#907057: neverball: Constant fsync calls seriously degrade performance

2018-08-29 Thread Uoti Urpala
On Mon, 2018-08-27 at 23:13 +0200, Markus Koschany wrote: > Am 27.08.2018 um 03:36 schrieb Uoti Urpala: > > Neverball is broken so at least a bug blocked by a physfs bug would be > > appropriate in any case, and I assume that the easiest way to fix the > > problem would be to change the Neverball

Bug#907057: neverball: Constant fsync calls seriously degrade performance

2018-08-27 Thread Markus Koschany
clone 907057 -1 retitle -1 libphysfs: constant fsync calls seriously degrade performance reassign -1 src:libphysfs affects -1 neverball thanks Am 27.08.2018 um 03:36 schrieb Uoti Urpala: > On Sun, 2018-08-26 at 17:59 +0200, Markus Koschany wrote: >> On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 17:56:01 +0300 Uoti Urpala

Bug#907057: neverball: Constant fsync calls seriously degrade performance

2018-08-26 Thread Uoti Urpala
On Sun, 2018-08-26 at 17:59 +0200, Markus Koschany wrote: > On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 17:56:01 +0300 Uoti Urpala > wrote: > > 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

Bug#907057: neverball: Constant fsync calls seriously degrade performance

2018-08-26 Thread Markus Koschany
On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 17:56:01 +0300 Uoti Urpala 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

Bug#907057: neverball: Constant fsync calls seriously degrade performance

2018-08-23 Thread Uoti Urpala
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