OT [was Re: [PATCH] fsync applet]

[Bernhard Reutner-Fischer]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:16:10PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
>On Wednesday 17 June 2009 20:29:07 Denys Vlasenko wrote:
>> On Thursday 18 June 2009 00:52, Cathey, Jim wrote:
>> > Though systems are a lot faster now the loads put upon them
>> > are also a lot heavier.  Much like
>> > the constancy of human behavior, the delays in systems tend to
>> > hover at about what we will tolerate.  Twenty years ago's ten-second
>> > delay is still today's ten-second delay.  Unless it's twenty.
>> > Or five.  Never 0.01, which is what it would be based on clock
>> > rates.
>>
>> My guess is that performance bugs are only fixed when they are
>> painful enough.
>>
>> Example. KMail's abysmal performance on big mail folders
>> is not fixed yet only because it is tolerable on 2 GHz+ machines.
>
>Ha.

easy enough to fix. apt-get remove --purge kde && apt-get install mutt && \
echo 'set header_cache=~/.Mutt_headers' >> ~/.muttrc

>
>> Five years ago, it would be a must to fix it. today, KMail devels
>> can procrastinate.

I can't imagine to run anything KDE on a 100MHz machine anyway. Such a
box works nicely with (or without) X, a sensible WM like blackbox or
related descendants, rxvt or ggiterm, mutt and links/lynx/dillo etc.

It's faster to reinstall such a box from scratch with a sane system than
to wait for KDE to bootup to the desktop _once_ anyway. Using or
complaining about KDE is just doctor-it-hurts-when-i.. syndrome :P