On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 21:47 +0100, Christian Iversen wrote: > That's _serisouly_ odd. I've seen something like this happen before, when X > programs generated some (non-harmful) X warnings. These were then written > into a log file, typically .xsession-errors or similar. Any chance that's > what you are seeing? >
This explains the problem with Evolution, it looks a bit trigger happy with the fsync call while resizing columns. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ strace -p 8002 2>&1 | grep fsync fsync(37) = 0 fsync(37) = 0 fsync(37) = 0 fsync(37) = 0 fsync(37) = 0 fsync(37) = 0 fsync(37) = 0 fsync(37) = 0 fsync(37) = 0 fsync(37) = 0 fsync(37) = 0 fsync(37) = 0 fsync(37) = 0 fsync(37) = 0 fsync(37) = 0 fsync(37) = 0 fsync(37) = 0 while true; do lsof -p 8002 2>&1 | grep 37w ; done evolution 8002 craig 37w REG 3,4 417 1901436 /mnt/storage/craig-home/.evolution/mail/views/.#custom_view-mbox:_home_craig_.evolution_mail_local#Lists_Reiser4.xmlwhile The file listed above seems to get moved, but is only a few hundred bytes. ls -lh /mnt/storage/craig-home/.evolution/mail/views/custom_view-mbox \:_home_craig_.evolution_mail_local#Lists_Reiser4.xml -rw------- 1 craig craig 417 2005-11-15 14:19 /mnt/storage/craig-home/.evolution/mail/views/custom_view-mbox:_home_craig_.evolution_mail_local#Lists_Reiser4.xml Why does calling fsync on this one small file cause so much hard disk activity? -- Craig Shelley EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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