On Wednesday 28 June 2006 12:15, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote: > On Wednesday 28 June 2006 05:09, Matej Cepl wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I really do not want to flame (I have been using KDE for many years > > and I do not mean to change anything about that), but can anybody > > explain why KDE has so lousy multi-tasking? Or is it whole Linux? I > > have noticed it for long time, but couple of days I was working on > > Windows XP and running something terribly complicated with Access, > > it was running completely out of its mind, but when I switched to > > the other window where I had Excel, I could work without problems > > and I have hardly noticed almost dying Access on the background. > > Whenever I run something more complicated in Linux (gcc, update of > > slocate dbase), whole computer goes almost to halt (and it is not > > that bad computer -- Dell Inspiron 2200 notebook w/ Celeron 1.4GHz, > > 512MB RAM). I believe that Linux should have perfect > > multi-everything, but apparently there is some problem with my > > configuration. > > > > Can anybody kick me in the right direction? > > Is anything trying to write/read large amounts of data when this > happens? if so you might want to: > - check the settings for your harddisk (notably DMA) > - also which filessystem are you using? reiserfs3 has problems > locking up the system under high load
I sometimes have this problem and thought that it's related to SATA. But I'm using reiserfs3. Do you've more infos about its problems under high load. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]