Re: Absolutely Ridiculous

["Peter Dow (ML)" <maillist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Scott,

Hey, speaking of handling multi-tasking properly, have you heard of Con 
Kolivas?  There's a two-part interview with him here 
http://apcmag.com/6759/interview_with_con_kolivas_part_1_computing_is_boring 
and here 
http://apcmag.com/6762/interview_with_con_kolivas_part_2_his_effort_to_improve_linux_performa 
wherein he talks about problems with the Linux CPU scheduler and some 
patches he wrote to fix them.  Have you tried them?

I don't know much about Linux, but I've installed DSL on an old PC in 
order to start learning something in my spare time, which I don't seem 
to have much of these days...

*Peter Dow* /
Dow Software Services, Inc.
909 793-9050
pdow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:pdow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> /

Scott Klement wrote:
> So run Linux.  Or BSD.  Or some other free operating system that handles 
> multitasking properly.
> Or buy a Mac.
>
> You may not be able to run OS/2, but nothing is forcing you to run 
> Windows.  (Well, other than IBM, who seems to want to make absolutely 
> sure that every System i person runs Windows -- but if you don't use 
> this laptop for business, then you'll be just fine without it.)
>
> Douglas Handy wrote:
>   
> > I am in the process of changing from a single core Pentium 4 to a quad core
> > Q6700 and yet there are still times XP doesn't multitask well.  Oh how I
> > wish OS/2 would have survived the marketing war...
> >
> > Doug
> >   
> >     
>
>