Initial impressions of DFly

Benny linux at mNOarcSrPeAnMearns.de
Thu Jul 8 01:20:12 PDT 2004


Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 10:59:26AM -0500, Jonathan Fosburgh wrote:
>> Sometimes it is a little unresponsive, but this is only a UP Pentium III
>> (600mHz).
> 
> There is currently a problem with the responsiveness e.g. of X apps when
> the disk load is very high. It seems the scheduling needs some tweaking,
> but noone did that yet.
> 
on my system (athlon xp 2000, 256MB, udma33) when extracting tarballs with
lots of files X was sometimes totally blocked until the extraction was
finished.

2nd show-stopper: on DFly RC1 I was unable to build /devel/fam as dependancy
of XFree. pkg_add -r workedso that I could continue to build X.





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