On 03/18/2016 08:27 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
But I will just add this one little point:
when Leap of Faith was introduced also came the change in the kernel which went from kernel-desktop to desktop-default, and that time there were statements made in the kernel related lists that nobody should (hopefully) notice the change in the kernel.
Yes, I recall that. Didn't we mention it here? I think we did but we didn't discuss it much. Issues of queueing, latency. There has always been a debate over this, it goes along way back. There isn't a clean model that says "pure web service server" vs "script driven server doing complies like the Build server" vs "CLI user interface doing CLI driven compiles and editing" vs "GUI user interface with graphic accelerator card doing things like compiles that have no use for the graphic accelerator" vs " GUI user interface with graphic accelerator doing pure gaming" vs ... what else? And let not forget that this is UNIX derived Linux, so there are things like CRON and NTP and Postfix and more running in the background, so that process switching matters. And this is the 21st century, so its all networked, so handling packets and the switching t do with that matters. kernel locks, soft and hard, spin loop locks, message buffers, all that matters. And of course you can tune a lot in /proc and /sys if you want to and know how to. For any specific application that might offer a better speed up at the cost of something else somewhere else. -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org