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Input pauses

Input pauses

Posted Sep 4, 2009 8:17 UTC (Fri) by Cato (subscriber, #7643)
In reply to: Input pauses by ncm
Parent article: Con Kolivas returns with a new scheduler

I've had these pauses for several seconds sometimes in Firefox 3.5.2, but they seem to be associated with large writes e.g. un-tarring a huge file at the same time - so I suspect it's the well known "Firefox 3.0 + ext3 + fsync" issue, reported in http://lwn.net/Articles/284126/ and elsewhere.


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