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Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 09:46:52 +0000
From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
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On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 15:41:29 +1100
Andrew Reilly <areilly@bigpond.net.au> wrote:

> On Linux.  Have you ever seen those sorts of UI problems on FreeBSD?
> I don't watch much video on my systems, but I haven't seen that.
> FreeBSD has always been good at keeping user-interactive processes
> responsive while compiles or what-not are going on in the background.

I've definitely seen problems when running builds in an xterm. I've
often resorted to canceling it and running it on a syscons console
instead to improve performance.

-- 
Bruce Cran