On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 2:37 AM, James Cameron <[email protected]> wrote: > I've no explanation for this behaviour.
Do we still have some (sugar?) log files opened 'sync'? ext3/4 still 'fsync' the whole partition, which may explain the erratic performance. Linus has been railing against this (with the "FF freezes laptop" issue a while ago) and Tytso eventually agreed. So ext4 may at some point improve on this. Perhaps btrfs does better. chhers, m -- [email protected] [email protected] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
