Re:24-core CPU and I can’t type an email
by ealexhudson on Friday August 17, 2018 @03:07AM
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I'm running Gnome and for the most part it has been excellent; Linux in general, though, still has a lot of trouble maintaining good UI speed at the same time as I/O throughput. I'm on Fedora, and dnf/rpm is an excellent example - even though I'm on an SSD, I can tell when something is updating in the background because stuff will lag for a little while. It feels like this has been a problem forever, and while it has definitely improved over time it's still not really possible to say, in a simple way, "I care more about interactivity than other stuff, prioritise that" (as far as I know, anyway).
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Re:24-core CPU and I can’t type an email
by jcelerier on Friday August 17, 2018 @03:12AM
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> while it has definitely improved over time it's still not really possible to say, in a simple way, "I care more about interactivity than other stuff, prioritise that
that's not what mainline kernel optimizes for, you have to use liquorix or another kernel (https://liquorix.net/)
You would assume that big guys like RedHat would already have done this for you.
RedHat's business is servers' support: it's quite logical that the desktop they provide is as much as possible similar to the server's configuration because developers will test on their workstation..
So no, I don't expect that RedHat will do this.