The Speed Factor -- Kubuntu vs. Gentoo

[Dotan Cohen]

2008/6/16 Willy K. Hamra <w.hamra1987 at gmail.com>:
>> Like poor buggy SATA performance in K/Ubuntu?
>> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/119730>
>>
>> Like useless heavy debug messages junks from almost all KDE applications
>> pushed along pipelines and written back to disk in file .xsession-errors
>> each time you use a KDE program?
>>
>> Maybe that stupid default atime update that imply you need to know when
>> each single file has bean read? (do you?)
>>
>> Or maybe that SVG rendering engine that suck memory and CPU each time it
>> update a damaged region after a window move, just because you have a
>> very nice Hardy Heron SVG drawing as your desktop background?
>>
>> I agree, there are things users can do to improve performance in
>> Kubuntu, like avoiding SVG backgrounds.
>>
>> There are other things like SATA slowness, poor choices in default mount
>> options that require wise knowledge to be fixed.
>>
>
> well, can you be helpful as to how can we avoid these stuff you
> mentioned? i'm aware of the atime problem for example from the days of
> windows, but have no idea about the others, or even if i'm using SVG or
> not :P what does SVG stands for anyway?
>

SVG: scalable vector graphics. If you are using a jpg gif or png
background then this won't bite you. As for the other stuff, I'd like
to hear more as well.

Dotan Cohen

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