On Wednesday 28 June 2006 05:09, Matej Cepl wrote: > 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. > > Can anybody kick me in the right direction? Is anything trying to write/read large amounts of data when this happens? if so you might want to: - check the settings for your harddisk (notably DMA) - also which filessystem are you using? reiserfs3 has problems locking up the system under high load -- Cheers, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
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