You can renice your X server. I would think that most distributions
would do this by default by now (Debian I know does.) If you run your X
server with a nice of 20 you will notice a large difference in the
performance of the applications run on it.
Bill W
On Sun, 2002-10-06 at 20:05, Matt Alexander wrote:
> >From my very limited understanding, I believe that the Windows kernel
> prioritizes GUI events over pretty much everything else. Linux
> doesn't...
> GUI events are handled by the X Window System outside of the kernel. So
> mouse and window response time should be expected to be faster in
> Windows,
> if both OS's are configured with the least number of services possible
> for
> a more fair comparison.
> ~M
>
>
> On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Michael Knee wrote:
>
> > Response time is the time from when I click on something until the
> expected
> > response appears, such as from clicking on "Start Here" until the
> "Start
> > Here" window appears.
> >
> > Mike
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Richard L. Proctor" <krycom1@cox.net>
> > To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> > Sent: Sunday, October 06, 2002 6:53 PM
> > Subject: Re: performance question
> >
> >
> > > On Sunday 06 October 2002 3:50 pm, Michael Knee wrote:
> > > > I have a dual boot system, WindowsXP and RH7.3. Response time for
> XP is
> > > > dramatically faster than for Linux, which is the opposite of what
> I
> > would
> > > > have expected. Has anyone else run into this?
> > > >
> > > > Each OS has it's own disk, and both disks are the same model
> (Western
> > > > Digital, 80GB, 7200 rpm, 8MB cache):
> > > >
> > > > XP is on hda (primary master)
> > > > Linux is on hdb (primary slave)
> > > >
> > > > I installed XP first, later I added the 2nd drive and Linux.
> > > >
> > > > Any ideas? Or does XP usually respond faster than Linux?
> > > >
> > > > Mike
> > >
> > > What do you mean response time, in response to what?
> > >
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