The Speed Factor -- Kubuntu vs. Gentoo

[Derek Broughton]

Lea Gris wrote:

> As for the SATA problems, comments on the launchpad bug entry says it
> all. 

Not from my reading.  I think it's safe to say that there _is_ a problem -
too many people reporting measured throughputs that are ridiculously
small - but I still see no evidence there that anybody has tracked down the
bug.  Nevertheless, it's a _bug_, not something that can, or should, be
tweaked in an individual install.

> About the atime default, this esayly fixed by editing /etc/fstab and
> adding noatime to the mount options like:
... 
> At last, for the .xsession-errors:

And for both of those, while you're right that they use resources, do you
have any evidence at all that they're slowing things down enough for a user
to notice?  I don't think so.

fwiw, I think trying to eliminate the writing to .xsession-errors is not a
very good idea.  You'll be sorry when you start encountering a problem with
an X app.  You _could_ modify all your .desktop files so that the command
executed routes standard output to /dev/null
-- 
derek