From kde-devel  Mon Apr 21 16:29:58 2008
From: Sami Liedes <sliedes () cc ! hut ! fi>
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:29:58 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: fsync() madness
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On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 06:01:35PM +0200, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> Before discussing patches, we should agree which functionality to
> change. Is it considered acceptable to change the behavior of
> KTempFile, or should only the behavior of Konqueror's history saving
> be changed ?

It's not only Konqueror. It's things like kded syncing every now and
then, spinning up the hard drive for laptops, resulting in both a long
delay and reduced battery life. On desktops only truly excessive
syncing is noticeable, but on laptops even one redundant fsync() makes
a difference.

	Sami

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