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

Martin J. Bligh
2002-10-06T15:16:20Z

> 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.

Ditto for the "takes me years to switch between desktops" ...
maybe it's just that RAM is full of utter garbage due to mindless
feature-bloat, so everything gets swapped out. If you're running
something like Netscape / Mozilla ... ;-)

I still think userspace is 90% of the problem here ...

M.