Why Computers Are Getting Slower (And What We Can Do About It)

Rik Van Riel

Each year, computer components get faster and have a larger capacity. Surprisingly, this causes some common operations to get slower year after year. This presentation will explain which operations are getting slower and why, what Red Hat is doing to mitigate these problems at the operating system level, and what you will need to do to mitigate the problem on your systems.