I spoke too soon; it's still issuing storms of fsync() calls. However, perhaps due to other unrelated config changes in the server including a move to a better storage subsystem and changes in the I/O scheduler policy, I'm no longer seeing the I/O stalls.
This bug is certainly not fixed, though. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ strace -p 16603 -e fsync -tT Process 16603 attached - interrupt to quit 12:42:54 fsync(43) = 0 <0.041079> 12:42:54 fsync(25) = 0 <0.006983> 12:42:55 fsync(43) = 0 <0.002066> 12:42:55 fsync(25) = 0 <0.001079> 12:42:55 fsync(43) = 0 <0.001818> 12:42:55 fsync(25) = 0 <0.000879> 12:42:58 fsync(43) = 0 <0.016294> 12:42:58 fsync(25) = 0 <0.003590> 12:43:02 --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) --- 12:43:04 fsync(43) = 0 <0.010158> 12:43:04 fsync(25) = 0 <0.004260> 12:43:04 fsync(43) = 0 <0.001897> 12:43:04 fsync(25) = 0 <0.000345> 12:43:04 fsync(43) = 0 <0.001617> 12:43:04 fsync(25) = 0 <0.000607> 12:43:17 fsync(43) = 0 <0.041240> 12:43:17 fsync(25) = 0 <0.005839> 12:43:18 fsync(43) = 0 <0.020532> 12:43:18 fsync(25) = 0 <0.001234> 12:43:21 fsync(43) = 0 <0.040277> 12:43:21 fsync(25) = 0 <0.004756> 12:43:21 fsync(43) = 0 <0.007197> 12:43:21 fsync(25) = 0 <0.000355> 12:43:21 fsync(43) = 0 <0.001899> 12:43:21 fsync(25) = 0 <0.001048> 12:43:21 fsync(43) = 0 <0.002305> 12:43:21 fsync(25) = 0 <0.000700> 12:43:21 fsync(43) = 0 <0.001840> 12:43:21 fsync(25) = 0 <0.000829> 12:43:21 fsync(43) = 0 <0.001911> 12:43:21 fsync(25) = 0 <0.000352> 12:43:21 fsync(43) = 0 <0.002159> 12:43:21 fsync(25) = 0 <0.000654> 12:43:25 fsync(43) = 0 <0.051897> 12:43:25 fsync(25) = 0 <0.005379> $ dpkg -l firefox-3.0 ii firefox-3.0 3.0+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1 -- Firefox keeps forcing disk to spin up when browsing because its sqlite storage calls fsync() for every recorded entry https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/221009 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
