Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 4 Aug 2007 12:33:47 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8 |
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* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> [ my personal interest in this is the following regression: every time > i start a large kernel build with DEBUG_INFO on a quad-core 4GB RAM > box, i get up to 30 seconds complete pauses in Vim (and most other > tasks), during plain editing of the source code. (which happens when > Vim tries to write() to its swap/undo-file.) ]
hm, it turns out that it's due to vim doing an occasional fsync not only on writeout, but during normal use too. "set nofsync" in the .vimrc solves this problem.
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