2010/7/21 Scott E. Armitage <launch...@scott.armitage.name> > 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. >
Something does seem to be going on in Maverick right now, it has started happening a lot more often on my meager machine. It would be good if we had some way of figuring out exactly what is going on. - David
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