Rene Herman schrieb: > On 07/27/2007 01:48 PM, Mike Galbraith wrote: > >> I believe the users who say their apps really do get paged back in >> though, so suspect that's not the case. > > Stopping the bush-circumference beating, I do not. -ck (and gentoo) have > this massive Calimero thing going among their users where people are much > less interested in technology than in how the nasty big kernel meanies are > keeping them down (*).
I think the problem is elsewhere. Users don't say: "My apps get paged back in." They say: "My system is more responsive". They really don't care *why* the reaction to a mouse click that takes three seconds with a mainline kernel is instantaneous with -ck. Nasty big kernel meanies, OTOH, want to understand *why* a patch helps in order to decide whether it is really a good idea to merge it. So you've got a bunch of patches (aka -ck) which visibly improve the overall responsiveness of a desktop system, but apparently no one can conclusively explain why or how they achieve that, and therefore they cannot be merged into mainline. I don't have a solution to that dilemma either. -- Tilman Schmidt E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bonn, Germany Diese Nachricht besteht zu 100% aus wiederverwerteten Bits. Ungeöffnet mindestens haltbar bis: (siehe Rückseite)
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