cvs commit: ports/audio/arts Makefile

[David O'Brien]

On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 12:09:25PM +0600, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> As it's been said, real time priority is needed only when one stresses
> their box with some disk I/O-intensive operation, e.g. extracting
> mozilla tarboll.  Otherwise, its impact is negligible.  On the other
> hand, disk activity might be an issue only is you have bunch of services
> running (http/ftp/cvsup/etc) on the same box you run your desktop.
> Since vast majority of desktop users does only run their desktop
> environment software without any server-type services, disk-intensive
> operations are pretty rare.  I doubt that our typical [desktop] user
> extracts mozilla or X on a regular basis,

Not true.  If I build any large port on my desktop (no (http/ftp/cvsup
daemons), I can't hardly type due to Giant and the IRQ my SCSI controller
uses.  (I feel like I'm using Linux. :-( )

Until we get something done about Giant disk activity has a larger impact
on the system than it should.

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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)