Add some debuging output to the program (mainly at the very begining of
main) and then launch it with simple program that will note time right
before it forks and then wait for the application to output something
(which should be the debuging write at the start od main) and note time
it returned from select.
> > A snappy desktop is trivial with 2.5, even with a slow machine.
> > Just stay away from gnome and kde, use a ugly fast
>
> A desktop machine needs to run a desktop enviroment. Only a window manager is
> not enough.
Please, could someone explain to me, what is desktop enviroment in
addition to window manager and horde of libraries for UI and IPC.
(No, panel is not important thing and even if it were, it's a simple
fast application, providing it's implemented sanely (I mean, gnome panel
is currently buggy))
> > window manager like icewm or twm (and possibly lots
> > of others I haven't even heard about.)
> > X itself is snappy enough, particularly with increased
> > priority.
> > Take some care when selecting apps (yes - there is choice!)
> > and the desktop is just fine. Openoffice is a nice
> > package of programs, but there are replacements for most
> > of them if speed is an issue. If the machine is powerful
> > enough to run ms software snappy then speed probably
> > isn't such a big issue though.
>
> KDE and friends _are_ not quite optimised for speed. That however doesn't
> mean that the kernel should not make an effort to allow them to run as fast
> as they can.
No, it does not.
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Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>
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