Some others I can think of... Running Wine and winex applications
Running games, such as ut2003. I don't mean card games. Running game servers too... Starting large Window managers like KDE. Mat On Monday 23 December 2002 03:28 am, Hans Reiser wrote: > We were discussing how to optimize reiser4 best, and came to realize > that us developers did not have a good enough intuition for what users > do that stresses their filesystem enough that they care about its > performance. > > If you just do edits of files it probably does not matter too much what > fs you use. > > Booting the machine seems like one activity that many users end up > waiting on the FS for. Yes? > > Starting up complex and big applications like xemacs and mozilla would > be another. Yes? > > Others? > > Hans > > PS > > reiser4 performance is up a lot recently, and within two weeks I think > cp -r will have been optimized as much as is worth doing. cp -r > accesses files in readdir order, and that does indeed seem worth > optimizing, but soon we will need to optimize more sophisticated access > patterns than that..... > > Hans
