Re: [Bug 290666] Re: Liferea stalling, uses excessive number of fsyncs

2010-04-13 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
On 13/04/10 10:22, bojo42 wrote: > @Emilio: this time you got me ;) i haven't tested it without the hack as > the changes doesn't seem that big. i did so now and result is much > better as my HDD keeps playing cool while updating the feeds, but i am > already on lucid and this probably a result of

Re: [Bug 290666] Re: Liferea stalling, uses excessive number of fsyncs

2010-04-12 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
On 12/04/10 16:07, bojo42 wrote: > for EXT4 users: i repackaged 1.7.4 with the fsync fix for lucid > https://launchpad.net/~bojo42/+archive/liferea People have reported that 1.7 works much better performance-wise. Do you still need the hack with it? Have you tried without it? -- Liferea stalling

Re: [Bug 290666] Re: Liferea stalling, uses excessive number of fsyncs

2010-01-30 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
On 30/01/10 12:04, bojo42 wrote: > @Emilio: sure i tried it before, but atleast on EXT4 and eCryptfs my HDD > still makes those ugly sounds. could be a bit better than 1.7.2 but not > really usable on my configuration. sry ;( Oh right, we're still not good on ext4. On ext3 it should be much better

Re: [Bug 290666] Re: Liferea stalling, uses excessive number of fsyncs

2010-01-30 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
On 30/01/10 11:21, bojo42 wrote: > i redid the packaging of the fsync fix for version 1.7.3 and also created a > seperate PPA for it: > https://launchpad.net/~bojo42/+archive/liferea 1.7.3 should be a bit better performance-wise, can you try it without this hack and see how it performs? -- Lif

Re: [Bug 290666] Re: Liferea stalling, uses excessive number of fsyncs

2009-07-15 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* marmuta : > Emilio, I do see quite an improvement as 1.6 is something in the > ballpark of 40% faster for me. Ext4/fdatasync(?) help too as the rest of > the system stays fairly responsive. Same here. It IS definitely faster. Not really fast, but faster. -- Liferea stalling, uses excessive num

Re: [Bug 290666] Re: Liferea stalling, uses excessive number of fsyncs

2009-07-15 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
marmuta wrote: > Emilio, I do see quite an improvement as 1.6 is something in the > ballpark of 40% faster for me. Ext4/fdatasync(?) help too as the rest of > the system stays fairly responsive. Good to hear :) > Unfortunately it still means counting startup and feed update times in > minutes on

Re: [Bug 290666] Re: Liferea stalling, uses excessive number of fsyncs

2009-07-14 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
marmuta wrote: > Here is an updated quilt patch for Karmic's current liferea > 1.6.0~rc6-1ubuntu1. Is it still as bad with 1.6.0? Performance fixes will come in 1.8, but I'm interested to know if it's equally bad with 1.6 or anything has changed. -- Liferea stalling, uses excessive number of fsy