Bug#907429: neverball: Constant fsync calls seriously degrade performance

[Markus Koschany]

Hi Ryan,

On Tue, 16 Oct 2018 11:32:34 -0400 "Ryan C. Gordon"
<icculus at icculus.org> wrote:
> 
> Can someone humor me and make a quick change to Neverball for me?
> 
> In neverball/share/fs_physfs.c, there are three calls to 
> PHYSFS_setBuffer(). Just comment them out and rebuild Neverball with 
> PhysicsFS support and see if the problem goes away on the machine with 
> the slow disk.
> 
> I suspect I know what the problem is (which would be a bug in PhysicsFS, 
> not Neverball, to be clear), but this will confirm it for me.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> --ryan.

I'm adding the original bug submitter to CC who is hopefully be able to
respond to this request. Bug reporters are not automatically subscribed
to bug reports.

Like I previously wrote I don't have such a slow disk anymore (I own
some 20 year old laptops but none of them is capable of running
Neverball). I could upload a new neverball package to Debian
experimental if that helps to debug the issue though.

Regards,

Markus


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