[EMAIL PROTECTED] <> wrote: > On Sunday 12 December 2004 12:42 am, Hamish Moffatt wrote: >> On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 08:57:37PM -0700, John Patrick Poet wrote: >>> As Isaac suggested, this patch moves the fdatasync(fd) call to it's >>> own thread. The means that the ThreadedFileWriter does not have to >>> wait for that call to return before processing data. >> >> What is the need to force a sync anyway? > > Kernel tends to store up unsynced writes for a while and then decide > to commit them to disk all at once without it, which can cause a nice > little cascading hiccup in the recording. > > Isaac
Does anyone know if this happens with the linux 2.6 CFQ io scheduler too? My guess is that it doesn't _______________________________________________ mythtv-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev
