Re: 2.4.0-test4-pre4 -- Mouse pointer gets very jumpy and freezes for ~1-2 seconds when lots of disk activity happening

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Fri Jul 14 2000 - 11:46:17 EDT

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On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Miles Lane wrote:

> If I run "slocate -u" (which reads my entire directory tree),
> my mouse pointer gets very unresponsive. Is this going to
> get fixed by the new vm when it gets added?

Yes.

The new VM will include page aging so we can actually
see the difference between use-once pages and pages
which are used over and over again.

regards,

Rik

-- "What you're running that piece of shit Gnome?!?!" -- Miguel de Icaza, UKUUG 2000

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