From 74e2161223a91cfe0653ef54377a6cb530309286 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Schwinge Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 13:07:24 +0200 Subject: open_issues/fsync: New. --- open_issues/fsync.mdwn | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+) create mode 100644 open_issues/fsync.mdwn diff --git a/open_issues/fsync.mdwn b/open_issues/fsync.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..d36a75ad --- /dev/null +++ b/open_issues/fsync.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +[[!tag open_issue_hurd]] + +IRC, unknown channel, unknown date + + azeem: I think I found why apt-get throws Hurd down sometimes + the problem is that it basically write(file, 20MB); fsync(); + i.e. it throws a storm of dirty-writeback to ext2fs + which thus goes into throttling threads + since posix explicitely says that fsync() can be void, I think I'll patch apt-get on the buildd + (that bug has bitten me too many times in the past days to let it go further) + for now it works + * youpi crosses fingers -- cgit v1.2.3