(posting again from my subscribed address as it is a members' only list - grumble) On Thursday August 31, lm@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > I'm running > > Linux travis 2.6.15-1-686 #2 Mon Mar 6 15:27:08 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux > > on a laptop with ext3 on / > > Some time ago things started getting weird in the following way: I do a > fairly normal hack, ^Z, make, test loop when developing and it seems > that vim is calling fsync or sync and that is then flushing everything > to disk. My tests create maybe 10 dozen files in ~30MB and for some > reason this is taking 4 seconds to flush. > > I'm not sure if ext3, the kernel, or vim is the problem. I already > googled and set > > set swapsync=sync > set nofsync > > in my .exrc but that hasn't helped. > > Has anyone else seen this and do they have a work around? I'm about to > switch to reiserfs and that's a lot of fuss for what should be a simple > problem (I hope). I've noticed this sort of problem, but it hasn't yet been enough to make me explore very far.... One thing worth a try is to mount with data=writeback. Though I sustem that set swapsync= might be fastest, but might not be what you want. NeilBrown _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
