From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269847AbUH0AxZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 20:53:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269761AbUH0Atx (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 20:49:53 -0400 Received: from mail18.syd.optusnet.com.au ([211.29.132.199]:23197 "EHLO mail18.syd.optusnet.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269794AbUH0ArN (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 20:47:13 -0400 Message-ID: <412E8475.5000505@kolivas.org> Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 10:46:45 +1000 From: Con Kolivas User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.1 (X11/20040626) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nuno Silva 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> <412E824F.90704@vgertech.com> In-Reply-To: <412E824F.90704@vgertech.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.84.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig1877F57F6C26B22A116DB26C" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig1877F57F6C26B22A116DB26C Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Nuno Silva wrote: > Con Kolivas wrote: >> 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 ;-) It does not hang the system, only it's dependant tasks (ie other kde thingies) Con --------------enig1877F57F6C26B22A116DB26C Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBLoR3ZUg7+tp6mRURAjXUAJ0SUf6e5rt/kBfqe5L80jLmprFJ+QCfaYuG szd9rkFv7yFcNjXPHc4CKiY= =nBis -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig1877F57F6C26B22A116DB26C--