Re: The reason to call it 3.0 is the desktop (was Re: [OT] 2.6 not 3.0 - (NUMA))

Oliver Neukum
2002-10-06T15:30:38Z

On Sunday 06 October 2002 17:19, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> > Then there's the issue of application startup. There's not enough
> > read ahead. This is especially sad, as the order of page faults is
> > at least partially predictable.
>
> Is the problem really, fundamentally a lack of readahead in the
> kernel? Or is it that your application is huge bloated pig?
> With admittedly no evidence whatsoever, I suspect the latter is
> really the root cause of this type of problem.

Of course, but that's not an excuse for sucking more than necessary.
Application startup is a problem.

Regards
Oliver