Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Daniel Dalton wrote: > > When I launch some applications from within gnome 3 mainly rhythmbox and > > gmpc the following occurs: > > * The fan goes to pull speed. > > * The desktop is locked up for about a minute > > * After about a minute the fan slows back down and the desktop is no > > longer frozen allowing me to use these programs. > > I get similar symptoms when mutt encounters a new GPG key in a > mailinglist and gpg rebuilds the trustdb, completely hogging one core. I > can tell because I have a CPU monitor in the panel.
I get similar behavior from the fsync() fiasco. Everyone has been told they are a bad programmer unless they defeat the filesystem buffer cache by using fsync() everywhere. This forces a cache flush to the drive and everything waits while it is doing so. If using 'eatmydata' avoids the behavior then you know that is the problem. Bob
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