Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 15:01:56 +0600 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@nsu.ru> To: ports-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/audio/arts Makefile Message-ID: <20040303090156.GA54273@regency.nsu.ru> In-Reply-To: <20040303081525.GA92980@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20040302153831.GK13724@sirius.firepipe.net> <200403021553.i22Frvhr030302@green.homeunix.org> <20040302161147.GK27008@FreeBSD.org> <20040303060924.GA37692@regency.nsu.ru> <20040303081525.GA92980@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 12:15:25AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 12:09:25PM +0600, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > > As it's been said, real time priority is needed only when one stresses > > their box with some disk I/O-intensive operation, e.g. extracting > > mozilla tarboll. Otherwise, its impact is negligible. On the other > > hand, disk activity might be an issue only is you have bunch of services > > running (http/ftp/cvsup/etc) on the same box you run your desktop. > > Since vast majority of desktop users does only run their desktop > > environment software without any server-type services, disk-intensive > > operations are pretty rare. I doubt that our typical [desktop] user > > extracts mozilla or X on a regular basis, > > Not true. If I build any large port on my desktop (no (http/ftp/cvsup > daemons), I can't hardly type due to Giant and the IRQ my SCSI controller > uses. (I feel like I'm using Linux. :-( ) > > Until we get something done about Giant disk activity has a larger impact > on the system than it should. Agreed. The impact heavy disk activity has on system smoothness is probably one of the top things that annoys me under FreeBSD. ./danfe
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