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From: Bjarne Wichmann Petersen <freebsd.nospam@mekanix.dk>
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Subject: Re: Performance of 4.x vs 5.x (Re: Lifetime of FreeBSD branches)
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On Wednesday 25 May 2005 23:45, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 11:42:01PM +0200, Bjarne Wichmann Petersen wrote:
> > I've had PREEMTION enabled in 5-STABLE for at couple of month and had the
> > opposite experience. Eg. when clicking on a file in a fileselector (I'm
> > using KDE) it would take 2-3 seconds before the file got highlighted.
> > After disabling PREEMTION again responsetime seems to have improved.
> Are you running 5.4-RELEASE or later?

Later (5.4-STABLE).

Hmm... did a little testing. Sometimes I *still* get "long" responsetimes with 
PREEMPTION disabled in a seemingly random order.

Bjarne