No improvement in Karmic ~Alpha2, liferea 1.4.26-0ubuntu1, sqlite3 3.6.14.2-1. Starting liferea took >30min until I finally lost patience and killed it. That's with an empty ~/.liferea_1.4 folder and ext4 on a (admittedly rather slowish) SSD.
Here is the output of (full output attached): $ rm -rf ~/.liferea_1.4/ $ time strace -e fsync,fdatasync -Ff -tT liferea 2>&1 | tee tmp/strace_karmic_lifrea_1.4.26-0ubuntu1.txt ... [pid 24864] 15:39:59 fdatasync(12) = 0 <0.147859> [pid 24864] 15:40:00 fdatasync(13) = 0 <0.000753> [pid 24864] 15:40:00 fdatasync(12) = 0 <0.336274> [pid 24864] 15:40:00 fdatasync(11) = 0 <0.691270> ... [pid 24864] 16:10:36 fdatasync(15) = 0 <0.001026> [pid 24864] 16:10:36 fdatasync(12) = 0 <0.335882> [pid 24864] 16:10:36 fdatasync(11) = 0 <1.354669> [pid 24864] 16:10:37 fdatasync(12 <unfinished ...> [pid 25245] 16:10:38 +++ killed by SIGKILL +++ ... real 30m39.157s user 0m5.044s sys 0m6.816s 2838 fdatasyncs in total ** Attachment added: "strace_karmic_lifrea__1.4.26-0ubuntu1.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/27733503/strace_karmic_lifrea__1.4.26-0ubuntu1.txt -- Liferea stalling, uses excessive number of fsyncs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/290666 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs