https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=400704 Summary: pidgin is fsyncing Product: openSUSE 11.0 Version: RC 3 Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: GNOME AssignedTo: bnc-team-gnome@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: toshok@novell.com QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- This is similar to the firefox3 fsync issue. Pidgin appears to be autosaving an xml file and is fsyncing the newly created file. This is causing hangs on the order of 1-5 seconds (sometimes even longer) where the window is grayed out by compiz. open("/home/toshok/.purple/blist.xml.save", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC|O_LARGEFILE, 0666) = 32 fstat64(32, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb2de9000 write(32, "<?xml version=\'1.0\' encoding=\'UT"..., 49152) = 49152 write(32, "5d0ffc93251756bb634e11634a3ba1.j"..., 1677) = 1677 fsync(32 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.