Re: 2.6.9-rc1-mm1

Nuno Silva
2004-08-27T00:43:19Z

Con Kolivas wrote:
> Martin J. Bligh wrote:

[..]

>>
>> Yup. I can open a large 8Mpixel camera image in "display" and hang the
>> whole
>> system for about 30s too ;-(
>

Congrats! 8MP camera! :-)

>
> If you're talking about using the embedded image viewer in kde, that
> spins on wait and wastes truckloads of cpu (a perfect example of poor
> coding). Try loading it an external viewer and it will be 1000 times
> faster. If you're talking about it keeping the disk too busy on the
> other hand, that's I/O scheduling.
>

The question is: "can a poorly coded app hang the system for 30secs?"

That's a DoS ;-)

Regards,
Nuno Silva