From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [RFC] how do we move the VM forward? (was Re: [RFC] cleanup ofuse-once) From: Lee Revell In-Reply-To: <20050520181606.GB6002@MAIL.13thfloor.at> References: <42771904.7020404@yahoo.com.au> <42781AC5.1000201@yahoo.com.au> <20050520181606.GB6002@MAIL.13thfloor.at> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 14:30:43 -0400 Message-Id: <1116613844.29740.14.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Herbert Poetzl Cc: David Lang , Nick Piggin , Rik van Riel , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 20:16 +0200, Herbert Poetzl wrote: > cool, looks like they are taking the MS compatibility > really serious nowadays ... > Um... I don't know when you last used Windows, but most Linux desktop GUI apps are way more bloated than the Windows counterparts. Take a look at some of the Gnome bounties for reducing bloat - some of them are just embarassing. Quick demo: with a recent Gnome, open the file selector dialog, and browse to /usr/bin. The disk goes nuts for 20 seconds before the file list is even displayed. Now hit cancel and try it again. No disk activity this time, but the CPU pegs for 7-8 seconds before the files are displayed. Now try the same on Windows. It's instantaneous. Lee -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org