On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 7:44 PM, J.C. Roberts <list-...@designtools.org> wrote: > Now getting back to the link/problem posted by Frank which mentions > firefox, as well as your complaint about the speed of firefox... Yep, > the final stop on the reality tour is most likely the fact that firefox > might be *STILL* trying to shut down because the disk write speed sucks > so bad. This of course means, sync is waiting on it. If you use a > bloated "Desktop" like kde or gnome, they may also be a contributing > factor to your shutdown times and for the same reason.
I also experience this issue intermittently on my two 4.6 workstations, both with conventional HDDs. It either syncs instantly, or it never completes at all. I only weigh in because this was never a problem until 4.6 & Firefox 3.5, and after jcr's points above I am highly inclined to blame the latter. Thank you for your suggestions. I will configure FF to not use a disc cache and report back after testing. Cheers, Anders
