Re: Sluggish system responsiveness on I/O

On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 08:51 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> That makes sense, I/O tasks don't generally hold the cpu for extended
> periods, whereas a cpu bound task does.

So what can we do about I/O intensive tasks that also want a lot of CPU,
for example, the bloatier Gnome/KDE apps?  Evolution is the worst for
me.

Lee  

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