On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 06:49:37PM +0200, Jes wrote: > On 16/09/13 15:25, James Griffin wrote: > >* Jes <jjje...@gmail.com> [2013-09-16 14:43:48 +0200]: > > > >>Hi all: > >> > >>I use during so long time KDE3. Nowdays I prefer xfce4. Gnome3 is a bit > >>ugly for me. I prefer WMs that integrate the file browser and other tools. > >>Because of this I don't use WindowMaker or FVWM or Enlightenment.... If I'd > >>only had to code I'll use vim and some minimalistic wm. > > > >Thanks for your input. I agree, having a file browser would make life > >simpler for average users. For me, though, the best file browser on UNIX > >systems is the shell (ksh). > > > >>In my experience, KDE3, Gnome3 and XFCE4 are good choices for general use. > > > >For my partner, i'm inclined towards KDE or xfce. I think xfce is not so > >"bloated" (a term I have often seen/read to be associated with KDE). > > > >>Not related with the desktop choice but with the performance... In OpenBSD, > >>all versions, I note performance decrease (not smooth mouse movement or web > >>page scrolling) when the machine is doing any heavy reading/writing task or > >>cpu compsuming (for example a rsync or zip/unzip a big file). Has anyone > >>else experienced a similar behaviour? > >> > >>Jes > > > >This is what you've observed with KDE, then? > > > >Cheers, Jamie. > > > > > > I've observed that behaviour in KDE, GNOME3 and XFCE4. Always when a > lot of readings/writings are taking place in the disk, or for > example, when the CPU load is high though in a only core. My machine > is not very old; it's a thinkpad T410 with 4 cores and 8MB RAM > (amd64). If only one core is on high CPU I experienced a not so > smooth scrolling in firefox, or the mouse pointer jumps from one > place to another one when moving. I didn't experience this in linux > or freebsd... And it ocurrs in 4.9, 5.0... and 5.4 current.
Yes, there's something deeply fucked up somewhere in our scheduler/disk-handling/whatever. The issue is known. It appears it is complicated to fix properly without replacing it by a lot of other problems, some of which pertain to keeping relatively old archs in working condition, or so I'm told.
