El Miércoles, 28 de Junio de 2006 05:09, Matej Cepl escribió: > 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.
I have an Athlon 800, and when I download my email, kmail blocks completely, and doesn't refreshes until spamassassin finishes processing at least the current email, but if I switch to another application, it works very well. Which kernel are you using? I always run the default debian kernel, and I noticed that the responsiveness of the desktop improved a lot in some 2.6 release (i suppose because the scheduler was different). -- Alex (a.k.a. suy) - GPG ID 0x0B8B0BC2 http://barnacity.net/ - Jabber ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
