Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1176 mails)

[Mischa Salle <msalle@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 12:18:59PM +0200, Anders Johansson wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 August 2011 11:22:15 Stefan Seyfried wrote:
> > Am Tue, 30 Aug 2011 01:20:35 +0200
> >
> > schrieb Anders Johansson <ajh@xxxxxxxx>:
> > > The elapsed time (real) tells you how much time the command actually
> > > took to complete, and that dropped to less than a third
> >
> > He meant to express that it is less efficient - in "number of CPU cycles
> > spent"
> >
> > Which is to be expected, as threading surely introduces some overhead.
>
> That was exactly my point. The only interesting thing is overall time, unless 
> you're trying to minimize power usage, which might be interesting for 
> embedded 
> systems, but for a general desktop system, speed and performance usually take 
> center stage

Hi,

I don't agree with that! General desktop systems still run many
processes, which often include zipping/unzipping, in the background and
I would *not* want these processes to use all my CPU cores with high %.
For foreground/interactive processes, it can be very useful, but it's
for the user to determine when (just like with make -j). I would very
much prefer the default to stay the same. 

    Mischa
-- 
Nikhef                      Room  H155
Science Park 105            Tel.  +31-20-592 5102
1098 XG Amsterdam           Fax   +31-20-592 5155
The Netherlands             Email msalle@xxxxxxxxx
  __ .. ... _._. .... ._  ... ._ ._.. ._.. .._..
-- 
To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxx
For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@xxxxxxxxxxxx