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Re:Windows file access performance compared to Linux by Dayshine on Saturday December 29, 2018 @01:07PM (#18784838)
>There's no easy solution to this issue, other than making user programs more responsive to memory pressure in the first place.

Well, why can't distributions that come with recommended GUIs just set that high-than-normal priority by default?

I don't quite understand why the system can't keep what it needs to perform REISUB in memory at all times. Surely that's a tiny program!?

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Re:Windows file access performance compared to Linux by zozbot123 on Saturday December 29, 2018 @01:13PM (#18784860)
> Well, why can't distributions that come with recommended GUIs just set that high-than-normal priority by default?

Feel free to file bugs for your preferred distro. It would be especially appropriate to do this for critical UI processes like xorg/wayland or lightdm, and for "lightweight" desktops like xfce/lxde that aren't going to cause resource pressure under foreseeable conditions, even when run at higher-than-normal priority.

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