Check this post by one of the developers from a while ago: http://blogs.gnome.org/desrt/2010/11/15/gsettings-is-fast/ http://blogs.gnome.org/desrt/2010/11/15/gs

Check this post by one of the developers from a while ago: http://blogs.gnome.org/desrt/2010/11/15/gsettings-is-fast/ http://blogs.gnome.org/desrt/2010/11/15/gsettings-is-fast/ EDIT: Also, http://blogs.gnome.org/desrt/2010/12/19/more-on-dconf-performance-btrfs-and-fsync/ http://blogs.gnome.org/desrt/2010/12/19/more-on-dconf-perfor...