[Sorry, in Germany and so my e-mail latency is slow... ] On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 08:17:55PM +1000, Neil Brown wrote: > On Thursday August 31, lm@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > 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. > > > > One thing worth a try is to mount with data=writeback. Or data=ordered. What does "cat /proc/mounts" say? The fsync() operation results in a journal commit operation, and if you're using "data=ordered" or "data=journaled", the data blocks will be flushed to either their final location on disk or to the journal before the journal is allowed to commit. - Ted _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
