On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 01:41:08PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: [... the beginning of my further rant...] > > I completely agree. And it kills me. I have to wonder where all this > overhead comes from. Obviously, in the case of running a cpu-intensive > long-term job, its the scheduler. But what about the cases where this > job isn't around?
I forgot to mention bloat. That's a big factor in all of this, no doubt. But a fundamental redesign from the desktop user focus would probably clean up a lot of bloat anyway... [... subsequent ranting ] A
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