This can be temporarily worked around using the same method as the one used to work around Firefox fsyncing excessively; by creating a wrapper that replaces the fsync() function with a noop dummy. See http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1103926.
fsync.c: int fsync (int fd) { return 0; } $ gcc -fPIC -g -c -Wall fsync.c $ gcc -shared -Wl,-soname,fsync.so -o fsync.so fsync.o -lc $ mkdir ~/.misc $ mv fsync.* ~/.misc (+x) /usr/local/bin/quassel (or /usr/local/bin/quassel-nofsync, or whatnot): #!/bin/bash export LD_PRELOAD=$HOME/.misc/fsync.so /usr/bin/quassel "$@" & -- Quassel very I/O intensive, fsync()ing to disk after each log entry https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/355552 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs