421482 - Firefox 3 uses fsync excessively

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080208 Fedora/2.0.0.12-1.fc8 Firefox/2.0.0.12 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080208 Fedora/2.0.0.12-1.fc8 Firefox/2.0.0.12 I have been using Firefox 3 nightlies for a while. I have recently been experiencing really bad system responsiveness, and have been pulli

[ita-wasa]

------- Comment #125 From Andrew Morton 2008-05-22 21:40:11 PDT ------- No, it will not. sync_file_range() purely syncs the data portion of the file, not the metadata which tells the fs driver where the data lies. It's basically suited to database-style applications which instantiate the data fil

[kazuhooku]

「I would commend the use of the sync_file_range() syscall on Linux」