Comments on: More on fsync

By: Session Restore Now Writes to Disk Off of the Main Thread : Shawn Wilsher

Session Restore Now Writes to Disk Off of the Main Thread : Shawn Wilsher — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:47:34 +0000

[...] we learned in the past with Places, writing to disk and calling fsync can be painfully slow. In session restore code, we are doing [...]

By: Front-end Performance in Firefox 3.5 and Beyond « dietrich

Front-end Performance in Firefox 3.5 and Beyond « dietrich — Tue, 05 May 2009 19:41:23 +0000

[...] so that it no longer needs to write to the database every time you visit a page, a project well chronicled on Shawn’s blog. Spurred on by one of Shawn’s performance wins, Ed Lee was [...]

By: How to solve the fsync problem

How to solve the fsync problem — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:10:13 +0000

[...] part four in a continuing series about how we are working around the slow fsync issue in Mozilla. Part one can be found here, part two here, and part three [...]

By: Issues Issues…

Issues Issues… — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 01:21:55 +0000

[...] part three in a continuing series about how we are working around the slow fsync issue in Mozilla. Part one can be found here, and part two here. You may find the schema diagram of places to be a bit helpful when reading this [...]

By: More details on the fsync solution

More details on the fsync solution — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:58:45 +0000

[...] Calendar More on fsync [...]