This is indeed very annoying. I typically see it when trying to edit files while doing a big kernel compile. For a hypothesis, (probably easy to confirm by strace'ing vim), see the email thread appended to this article:
http://kerneltrap.org/node/14148 "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." But I haven't tested that. It sounds like it might also help to mount with data=writeback (but see "man mount" for consistency warning), or to switch to a filesystem other than ext3. -- poor disk performance during heavy io https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/43484 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
