comments on KDE performance tips

Alexander Kellett kde-optimize@mail.kde.org
Mon, 13 Jan 2003 14:47:06 +0100


On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 06:08:24AM -0800, Neil Stevens wrote:
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> On Monday January 13, 2003 05:34, Philippe FREMY wrote:
> > - use special kernel. What are the desktop kernel option ? Pre-emptive
> > and I don't remember the other. Gentoo has it.
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> That will only really make a difference for preventing artsd skips, 
> especially if you turn on realtime priority.

While this is certainly true preempt also makes konsole
for example much more interactive on a highly loaded machine.

Alex

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