Comment 230 for bug 620074

I will admit that many of my issues seem to be caused by fsync() (I'm on ext4). One of the largest issues I'm currently having is Liferea blocking in fsync() for several seconds every time a new item is selected. During this time kjournald2 is writing, although iotop only shows a total write rate of ~500kB/s. This seems extremely slow and far below the disk's (a 7200 RPM SATA drive) capacity. This low I/O rate is common for all sluggish I/O cases. Does this sound like expected behavior? Perhaps my problems have been caused by just generally slow I/O?