Comment 43 for bug 221009
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| Alexander Sack (asac) wrote Re: [Bug 221009] Re: Firefox keeps forcing disk to spin up when browsing because its sqlite storage calls fsync() for every recorded entry | #43 |
amn wrote:
> People, I suggest someone (yes, that includes me too) start a patchwork.
> One that does not use fsyncs, substituting them with either database
> synchronization as an option or inventing a solution where Firefox is
> still usable without the need to read or write from harddrive every time
> user opens a page.
>
> I am going to download the source and start poking into it. If open
> source is what it promises to be (and I am a programmer), it should not
> be impossible to solve this, and at least get more battery life and
> laptop thermals in reward.
>
>
upstream put a lot of efforts into this and tuned this quiet much so far
... probably more to come sooner or later ... however, they say its ext3
filesystem that causes the real issue here - of course, not really
helpful. You could setup a test system with a different fs though to
check if its better.