Re: 2.6.9-rc1-mm1

[Nuno Silva]

Con Kolivas wrote:
> Martin J. Bligh wrote:

[..]

> > Yup. I can open a large 8Mpixel camera image in "display" and hang the 
> > whole
> > system for about 30s too ;-(

Congrats! 8MP camera! :-)

> If you're talking about using the embedded image viewer in kde, that 
> spins on wait and wastes truckloads of cpu (a perfect example of poor 
> coding). Try loading it an external viewer and it will be 1000 times 
> faster. If you're talking about it keeping the disk too busy on the 
> other hand, that's I/O scheduling.

The question is: "can a poorly coded app hang the system for 30secs?"

That's a DoS ;-)

Regards,
Nuno Silva

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