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Comment my experience (Score 1) 596

by scottied on Wednesday October 24, 2007 @09:10PM (#21107965) Attached to: GIMP 2.4 Released

I have been watching the 2.4 development for months. In my experience it is quite a visible improvement from 2.2 in many aspects. I e it for my work daily, and would find it very difficult to revert back to the last version. Comparisons to photo$hop aside, the gimp is shaping up quite nicely.

Replacing Atime With Relatime in the Kernel 416

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday August 08, 2007 @05:08PM from the results-apparently-too-much-to-ask-for dept.

eldavojohn writes "Our friend Jeremy at the Kernal Trap has dug up some interesting criticism of atime from Linus Torvalds. As Linus submitted patches to improve relatime he noted: 'I cannot over-emphasize how much of a deal it is in practice. Atime updates are by far the biggest IO performance deficiency that Linux has today. Getting rid of atime updates would give us more everyday Linux performance than all the pagecache speedups of the past 10 years, _combined_.' And later severely beat atime about the head with a pointed stick: 'It's also perhaps the most stupid Unix design idea of all times. Unix is really nice and well done, but think about this a bit: 'For every file that is read from the disk, lets do a ... write to the disk! And, for every file that is already cached and which we read from the cache ... do a write to the disk!'" Well, I guess I can expect my Linux machine to become a little bit faster!"

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