Re: Linux users want better desktop performance (Screw data. Prioritize code)

[Valent Turkovic <valent turkovic gmail com>]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 8:38 PM, Christopher Montgomery
<xiphmont gmail com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Valent Turkovic
> <valent turkovic gmail com> wrote:
>> http://rudd-o.com/en/linux-and-free-software/tales-from-responsivenessland-why-linux-feels-slow-and-how-to-fix-that
>>
>> What is you comment?
>
> ...this article is wrong in enough factual areas it's hard to comment
> (just because an explanation feels right doesn't make it true, it just
> makes it 'truthy').  But one thing is correct.  Linux Desktop
> performance has gotten sluggish.  It's not due to eg swap.  I have no
> swap on any of my machines and haven't for years.
>
> It's because a) virtually everything is backed by a db today (firefox
> is a pig because every keypress is firing off multiple database
> queries) b) Filesystems have finally turned on barriers to avoid most
> cases of 'I lost alot of data after a power outage' and c) the 'Wings
> Fall Off' buffercache serialization bug that showed up sometime after
> 2.6.15.   You think sluggish is bad, try 'my buffercache filled up
> while rendering video and the machine wouldn't even ping for a week'.
>
> These problems all feed each other.
>
> Monty
>

Author asked to be corrected so it would be helpful to correct him
where he is wrong. But also share all your knowledge how to make Linux
desktop more responsive.

Cheers,
Valent.

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