Its not 'multi tasking' anymore? LONG

[Cian Duffy]

One quick guess here - 2.6 vs. 2.4. 

I've never found Linux to be a good multitasking OS, but thats because
I come from BeOS. However, its possible that 2.4 was actually able to
multitask better than 2.6. This defies what we were told about 2.6
when it came out, but I've seen a number of whinges about 2.6 not
meeting expectations.

Another possibility is XFree vs. XOrg - the applications you are
noticing visibly slowing down are obviously graphical ones. YDL3 used
XFree, YDL4 uses XOrg.

Cian

On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 17:42:18 -0500, Andrew <virgule88 at videotron.ca> wrote:
>  I need and want thoughts from the best fellows out there.
> Some will remember that I complained my system were behaving strangely:
> Jumpy cursor, long loading times, annoyingly unresponsive. All that
> appears after a few days of usage. I've been told to maintain my system
> properly (of course) which mean to run fsck one in a while, checking out
> the running services, looking for 'undesired user(s)' and stuffs like
> that. Doing so, I actually found a 'cyrus' thing going (IMAP server??!)
> on so I removed all I saw fit. This -> seam <- to have fixed the spam
> issue, if this was an issue at all in the first place anyway.
> 
>  Now I have another issue that <cough cough> introduced itself some days
> ago. Even tho the Mac in question is a 300Mhz slowputer I know its not
> even close to 50% if its potential. YDL3 was pretty much near 100% IMO,
> that, even with a monolithic ('y' option instead of 'm' for modules ?)
> kernel I compiled with as much stuffs IN the kernel as possible and
> running ridiculously too many apps at once, kbuildsycoca, rpm
> --rebuilddb, locate -u... Even with all that, my favorite screensaver
> (IFS - iterated-function-system) was not 'lagging' like it it do in YD4.
> I always have an instance of gkrellm on my screen, in YDL3, nothing
> could 'pause' the bars and graphs from moving happily. Now, in YD4, just
> to move a xterm window around (with nothing else running then XFce on a
> minimalist module-happy kernel) does pause gkrellm. Think of what happen
> with MacOS7/8/9 when you hold a menu down.. all is at an halt until you
> release the mouse button. This is kinda what's going on here. It feel
> like MacOS and I dont expect that from Linux.
> 
>  The real questions are, WHAT is going on, WHY is this so and WHAT to do
> to make my Linux install a 'Linux' system again. I hope I make sense for
> someone. I've read and heard about quite a few ppl wondering why YD4 is
> 'slower' than YD3. Im sure some will answer 'its designed for the more
> recent Macs.'s but I understand a distribution is only a get-together of
> packages more or less pre-configured for a specific goal and/or target
> audience.
> 
>  I've look at all the obvious places and all seam 'normal' but I know
> deep in my heart its not. There IS a serious HUG in here and I want to
> blow it away.
> 
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