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On Monday 24 October 2005 12:53, Billy Holmes wrote: |
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> Luis Medinas wrote: |
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> > Yes there's a way... buy a faster processor. Those patches for kernel |
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> > might speed up a few ms but nothing special. |
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> those patches are not designed to speed up your machine, but to allow |
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> you use it for many tasks that don't require high throughput. When, the |
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> goal is to treat as many tasks as possible as equals with little to no |
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> resource starvation for tasks that need interactivity, then the stock |
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> kernel is not enough. |
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> Try untaring a huge file, compile a kernel, play an mp3, and browse the |
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> internet on a stock kernel. It can't done. Something suffers: the mp3 |
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> skips or the browser is not responsive. With ck-sources, for my |
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> multi-user desktop use, I don't have a problem. |
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Would you say that gentoo-source handle this problem with around the same |
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quality, or would you suggest ck-sources for a desktop only environment? |
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Karol Krizka |
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