Re: [ext3][kernels >= 2.6.20.7 at least] KDE going comatose when FS is under heavy write load (massive starvation)

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Lee Revell wrote:
On 4/28/07, Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I most wonder, why vim fsyncs its swapfile regularly (blocking typing
during that) and doesn't fsync the resulting file on :w  :-/

Never seen this.  Why would fsync block typing unless vim was doing
disk IO for every keystroke?

It does do that, for the crash-recovery files it maintains.
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