saving files on local disk in VIM/EMACS taking 5+ seconds
 

Hi all,

I am not sure what happened, but all of the sudden saving files to a local disk in VIM/EMACS is taking around 5 or more seconds. It's extremely frustrating for obvious reasons :)

I am not sure how to begin debugging this, it seems as though my disk performance is ok:
What else can I check out?

Thanks!
George

All files? Particular files? How big are the files in question?

i only notice this in text editors, not while trying to save a file from the web or something but that's hard to determine because of network transfer time

to give you an idea, i open up vim, create a brand new file, type the letter 't' and hit save and it takes 5 seconds. That's like 5 seconds to save a 1 byte file.

The only debugging suggestion I can make is to strace the process ...


Cheers,
Tink

thanks for the suggestion.

I did:
and used 'i' to switch to insert mode, then typed a 't', and hit ':wq' to write and quit. It took ~5 seconds to write and exit vim.

Here is the strace:
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/gnychis/slog

Sorry, but could you do that again with the -r -f switches?


Cheers,
Tink

done, refresh :)

oh, I also added timestamps, it seems as though an fsync is taking slightly more than 3 seconds

solved, LPD was causing the hang

Wow ... how did you determine that? I wouldn't have thought it would be involved
in this process at all ....


Cheers,
Tink