Thanks, I just downloaded Update 3 and hopefully the problem will go away.
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I think you may be observing that fsync() is slow.
The file will be written, and visible to other processes via the in-memory
cache, before the data has been pushed to disk. vi forces the data out via
fsync, and that can be quite slow when the file system is under load,
especially before a fix