On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 4:39 AM, Luke Benstead <kaz...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The other issue is that if some app starts accessing the hard disc / use > some CPU, everything seems to stop completely. Just now I ran some updates > while trying to type this email and Firefox started "grey screening" me > every few seconds. Why? The updates seem to use all the CPU and leave the > applications struggling to even refresh. I'm not saying this is an Ubuntu > specific thing, obviously we've all seen Window's "The application is not > responding" dialog, but I know that I see the greyed window on Ubuntu far > more than that dialog on Windows. And in my experience, the Windows dialog > actually appears when that program is hanging, not because another program > is busy. > I have noticed this "grey screening" a lot too, and it really gets on my nerves; I have four processing cores, each capable of multi-threading -- no matter what I'm doing on my computer, I expect the user interface to be completely responsive. I know this is not a trivial task, but Windows 7 is currently doing a much better job of this. -Scott -- Scott Armitage, B.A.Sc., M.A.Sc. candidate Space Flight Laboratory University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies 4925 Dufferin Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M3H 5T6
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