On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 8:19 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?
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As a long time Linux desktop user and Linux enthusiast I want bloody
screaming fast desktop :) There are some situations that I just want
to pull my hair out when I see that desktop performance just crawls to
a halt :(
When I read articles like Tales from responsivenessland[1] I really
don't get why there aren't bells ringing in the heads of the people
who can actually make a difference for Linux desktop performance.
I was also really sad when I read interview with Con Kolivas[2] and
the reasons why he quit kernel development[3].
I hope kernel developers will wake up and realise that there are also
us - Desktop users and what we need and want are responsive desktops.
Will Fedora be the first Linux distro to have sane desktop defaults
(vm.swappiness=1 and vm.vfs_cache_pressure=50). Current Fedora slogan
is "Features. Freedom. Friends. First", I hope to see "Desktop
performance" as part of it soon ;)
[1] http://rudd-o.com/en/linux-and-free-software/tales-from-responsivenessland-why-linux-feels-slow-and-how-to-fix-that
[2] http://apcmag.com/interview_with_con_kolivas_part_1_computing_is_boring.htm
[3] http://apcmag.com/why_i_quit_kernel_developer_con_kolivas.htm
Valent may have partially pointed to the issue of performance vs.
features. As Microsoft users have discovered, the more active
processes that are running and the pipes that interactive data, such as
email and internet, go through, the slower a system will run. Newer,
more complex (read: amount of code required to be functional)
applications and updates are applied, the perceived performance
continues to degrade. The amount of load on a desktop system has
expanded at a staggering rate. Virtualization adds its own load to
active desktops as well. And because of additional security monitoring
processes, older hardware
should not be pushed to perform at the level that it has in the past.