ubuntu/kubuntu is sloooooooow!

[cwillu]

On 8/13/07, Joel Bryan Juliano <joelbryan.juliano at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/14/07, metin <metin at safe-mail.net> wrote:
> > Ubuntu and derivatives are slow when compared with archlinux, pardus,
> > fedora and even debian proper.
> > I think it is really annoying for an OS otherwise very nice.
> >
> > Your ideas?

Gnome has an option (which I don't believe is enabled by default) to
pin the menu's in memory, which helps for that particular test.  The
upcoming cfs scheduler and swap_prefetch (maybe?  some day?) help with
much of the rest, and may already be in some of those distros.

Beyond that, actual usage bear little resemblance to what happens on a
fresh boot on a fresh installation, and there may be other tradeoffs
involved as well.