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In defense of Firefox

Posted May 29, 2008 15:09 UTC (Thu) by docwhat (subscriber, #40373)
In reply to: In defense of Firefox by ekj
Parent article: In defense of Firefox

The threading isn't actually the whole of the problem.

When fsync() is called on certain filesystems (ext3 without certain optimizations turned on is
mentioned in the bug) it causes the whole desktop to freeze/slow as all the data is written to
disk.

fsync() in these filesystems is really just a call to sync(). :-(

Ciao!

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Posted May 29, 2008 15:50 UTC (Thu) by tjc (subscriber, #137) [Link]

Some of the "freezes" in Firefox last 30 seconds or more, so I don't think it's the file
system in all cases.

In defense of Firefox

Posted May 29, 2008 18:48 UTC (Thu) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458) [Link]

For me, FF (on Fedora rawhide) freezes for good when accessing trac sites, or certain blogs (Groklaw, when trying to post a comment FF went off and didn't come back in an hour or so), and trying to comment on LWN got it frozen too.