Ubuntu 8.10 significantly slower than previous versions

Matthew Paul Thomas mpt at canonical.com
Fri Nov 7 09:43:56 UTC 2008


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Scott James Remnant wrote on 06/11/08 22:44:
>...
> I've always thought it would be interesting to be able to influence the
> scheduler on a per process basis - and do that from the Window Manager.
> ie. deliberately give the user's foreground process the "majority" of
> the time, and fair schedule the rest.
>...

<http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/13718/>

Windows Vista does this. It also lets programs register "multimedia
threads" that are then given higher priority to avoid playback glitches.
<http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/vista-under-the-hood.ars/4>
<http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc162494.aspx>

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Matthew Paul Thomas
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