Dan Williams wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 15:47 +0100, Harald Hoyer wrote:
>> At this point, I recognized that all processes (NetworkManager and
>> newaliases),
>
> Odd, NM isn't intentionally calling fsync() (it's not anywhere in the
> code), nor does glib do that anywhere that I can find. I can't think of
> anything that would require an fsync for NM, so I'm interested in
> finding this and killing it.
http://www.harald-hoyer.de/files/bootchart-16.png
looks very much like it... but I could be wrong, though.
ok, could only very the newaliases fdatasync(). NetworkManager and hald do not
seem to trigger this nor can I find any sync. Might be a normal journal commit
going on there coincidentally.
sorry for the false alarm.