Re: Multi-tasking

["Anders E. Andersen" <andersa@ellenshoej.dk>]

Leopold Palomo Avellaneda skrev:
> A Dimecres 28 Juny 2006 12:54, Anders E. Andersen va escriure:
>   
> > Matej Cepl skrev:
> >     
> > > 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?
> > >       
> > Pretty much the only thing that comes to my mind is if you are running a
> > kernel that has been compiled with the 'preemptible kernel' option.
> >     
> I think that's not right, 
>   
> > Without a preemptible kernel, the desktop experience is not as good.
> >     
>
> Desktop --> preemtive
> Server --> no preemtive 
>   

Wasn't that what I wrote? :)

Anders