Alan Cox wrote:
are you saying that Fedora is unsuitable for ordinary desktops and (by extension laptops) unless they have scsi?The problem is they hammer the I/O subsystem and the I/O on a desktop PC is completely incapable of sustaining any kind of useful load. On a scsi box with decent disks you dont even notice it.
There are things that might help such as putting sleeps through these programs so they will tick slowly through the process.