From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269874AbUH0AnT (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 20:43:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269856AbUH0AjD (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 20:39:03 -0400 Received: from [82.154.234.12] ([82.154.234.12]:51373 "EHLO puma-vgertech.no-ip.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269854AbUH0Ahc (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 20:37:32 -0400 Message-ID: <412E824F.90704@vgertech.com> Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 01:37:35 +0100 From: Nuno Silva User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040528 Thunderbird/0.6 Mnenhy/0.6.0.103 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Con Kolivas Cc: "Martin J. Bligh" , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Rick Lindsley Subject: Re: 2.6.9-rc1-mm1 References: <20040826014745.225d7a2c.akpm@osdl.org> <412DC47B.4000704@kolivas.org> <200408261636.06857.rjw@sisk.pl> <412E11ED.7040300@kolivas.org> <52540000.1093553736@flay> <412E7004.3070503@kolivas.org> In-Reply-To: <412E7004.3070503@kolivas.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.85.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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