Re: gdm3 issue

[Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 1:25 AM, Ralf Mardorf
<ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-12-09 at 19:08 +0000, Tom H wrote:
>>
>> The Ubuntu-created grub.cfg cannot be blamed for a GDM problem. If GDM
>> is being launched, grub's job has been done many seconds ago.
>
> This seems to be true here, but you're mistaken, a boot option could
> still cause something when a DE session already is running, e.g.
> "threadsirq", "noatime", sure, "noatime" won't brake something, but
> "threadirqs" at least could slow down GUI performance, assumed it's a
> lowlatency kernel.

!

I've never heard of the "threadsirq" kernel cmdline setting.

"noatime" is a filesystem setting not a kernel cmdline one.

Whether a kernel's low-latency or not isn't a grub concern.