From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751253AbWAJEaW (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jan 2006 23:30:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751283AbWAJEaV (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jan 2006 23:30:21 -0500 Received: from mustang.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.3]:5006 "HELO mustang.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751253AbWAJEaV (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jan 2006 23:30:21 -0500 Subject: Re: Why the DOS has many ntfs read and write driver,but the linux can't for a long time From: Lee Revell To: Alistair John Strachan Cc: Bernd Petrovitsch , Oliver Neukum , Robert Hancock , linux-kernel In-Reply-To: <200601100145.00044.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> References: <5t06S-7nB-15@gated-at.bofh.it> <1136824149.5785.75.camel@tara.firmix.at> <1136824880.9957.55.camel@mindpipe> <200601100145.00044.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 23:30:18 -0500 Message-Id: <1136867419.2007.56.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.5.4 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 01:44 +0000, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > Sounds like a broken configuration to me. Of course the usual array of > hardware specs, configuration, filesystem, free RAM, etc. all play > into this, but no KDE application, including the originally cited > Kate, takes longer than 1s to start on this machine (1.6GHz P-M, 2MB > L2, 400MHz FSB, 1GB PC2700). > > Hell kfm is probably a hell of a lot more bloated than Nautilus and > it's pretty fast to start first time (1-2s), and cached it's pretty > much instantaneous (I'd say less than 400ms). Fast enough, no? > I don't think it's a broken configuration, just a slow machine (600MHz VIA C3). Windows XP screams compared to Linux on this thing. Lee