[asterisk-dev] How to improve astdb? Any ideas?

[Stefan Schmidt]

Am 06.09.2010 16:05, schrieb Ron Arts:
> fsync writes all buffers to disk, it blocks until this is done. This means that C library
> will push out all its buffers to the OS, and the OS will push out everything to disk.
> This will result in hard disk head movements. If you call fsync in a tight loop,
> and there are modified buffers each iteration, then the other processes in the system
> will have a hard time getting the head to move in their direction.
> 
> Ron

hello ron,

fsync takes a filedescriptor as a parameter and only wait until the
buffer of this filedescriptor is written to disk, not all buffers.

what you mean is sync. this function will write all buffers.

see http://linux.die.net/man/2/sync how it differs to
http://linux.die.net/man/2/fsync

btw i have tried fdatasync instead of fsync but there isnt much time
safing in using fdatasync instead of fsync.

best regards

steve