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Hope For Fixing Longstanding Linux I/O Wait Bug
DaGoodBoy writes "There has been a long standing performance bug in Linux since 2.6.18 that has been responsible for lagging interactivity and poor system performance across all architectures. It has been notoriously difficult to qualify and isolate, but in the last few days someone has finally gotten a repeatable test case! Turns out the problem may not even be disk related, since the test case triggers the bug only by transferring data either between two processes or threads. The test results are very revealing. The developer ran regressions all the way back to version 2.6.15 that demonstrate this bug has more than doubled the time to run the test in 2.6.28. Many, many people working at improving the desktop performance of Linux will be very happy to see this bug die. I know that I, personally, will find a way to send the guy that found this test case his beverage of choice in thanks. Please spread the word and bring some attention to this issue so we can get it fixed!"
I had not noticed a problem.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
OS not fast enough? Just upgrade your hardware components, preferably to a new, top-of-the-line system.
Oh wait... that's the Windows way of doing things.
For more info see Karl Denninger's blog
if he wants to be taken seriously he needs to stop making his blog look like something a 2 yr old with fontmaker would put together.
This sort of sums up the Free Software community -
that any amount of work is worth no more than a few Euro.
Very sad.
Deeply insulting.
Clearly the person that wrote this has no kids to send to college or retirement to worry about.