Performance tuning the Fedora Desktop
Will Cohen
wcohen at redhat.com
Wed May 12 21:26:02 UTC 2004
Marius Andreiana wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 00:11, Will Cohen wrote:
>
>>What specific performance problems have people observed so far in the
>>desktop?
>
> when HDD is used by an application (copying a large file, updatedb...),
> all the applications respond slow. The preemptible kernel patch should
> solve this, but it's not enabled in FC2.
Are you sure that the preemptible kernel fixes this problem. I thought
this was related to application code getting swapped out to make more
room for disk cache. http://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg262920.html
Anyway the slow response does make the desktop less pleasant to use.
-Will
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