F9 ssh (perhaps tcp) problems

[Michael Schwendt]

On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:01:32 -0700, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:

> 
> In the last day I started noticing f9's Firefox hanging more and more
> frequently.  I would just go catatonic for a while not redrawing the
> screen or acting on kbd or mouse input.

That's because it calls fsync(2) too often. It slows down the entire
system. It's in bugzilla (both upstream and Fedora) already.