Quoting Neil Brown (neilb@suse.de):

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13:28:07.011717 fsync(4)                = 0
13:28:12.748252 open("js_gen.pl", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0770) = 3
13:28:12.748427 write(3, "#!/usr/bin/perl -w\nuse strict;\nu"..., 2189) = 2189
13:28:12.748506 fsync(3)                = 0
13:28:13.006702 close(3)                = 0

Yes, it's weird.  The sync of the .swp file takes a lot longer than
the fsync of the actual file you are saving....

Yup. And it's always the fsync() on the .swp file too ;)

I have this theory that there might be some odd interaction between md
and the drive scheduler.

Well, i never really understood the big difference between the three
models. I used to do deadline on servers, but that turned out to be
REALLY bad (at least on our intranet server). Caused major load on
writes, made NFS b0rk, and when i switched it back to Anticipatory it
was all normal again, so that's what i used afterwards.

Using CFQ gives the same, maybe even worse results.
As does Deadline :S

Strange huh! Only this time the fsync() wasn't on the .swp file but on
the "real" file after writing it's contents...

Kind regards,
Sander.
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