From owner-cvs-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 3 00:15:29 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AEEE16A4CE; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 00:15:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E5C343D1F; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 00:15:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i238FROJ093138; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 00:15:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i238FRad093137; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 00:15:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 00:15:25 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Alexey Dokuchaev Message-ID: <20040303081525.GA92980@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20040302153831.GK13724@sirius.firepipe.net> <200403021553.i22Frvhr030302@green.homeunix.org> <20040302161147.GK27008@FreeBSD.org> <20040303060924.GA37692@regency.nsu.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040303060924.GA37692@regency.nsu.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 cc: cvs-ports@freebsd.org cc: cvs-all@freebsd.org cc: ports-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/audio/arts Makefile X-BeenThere: cvs-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: ports-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-ports@freebsd.org List-Id: CVS commit messages for the ports tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 08:15:29 -0000 On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 12:09:25PM +0600, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > As it's been said, real time priority is needed only when one stresses > their box with some disk I/O-intensive operation, e.g. extracting > mozilla tarboll. Otherwise, its impact is negligible. On the other > hand, disk activity might be an issue only is you have bunch of services > running (http/ftp/cvsup/etc) on the same box you run your desktop. > Since vast majority of desktop users does only run their desktop > environment software without any server-type services, disk-intensive > operations are pretty rare. I doubt that our typical [desktop] user > extracts mozilla or X on a regular basis, Not true. If I build any large port on my desktop (no (http/ftp/cvsup daemons), I can't hardly type due to Giant and the IRQ my SCSI controller uses. (I feel like I'm using Linux. :-( ) Until we get something done about Giant disk activity has a larger impact on the system than it should. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)