Re: raid10 is killing me, and applications that aren't willing towaitfor it to respond

2023-12-16 Thread David Christensen
On 12/16/23 00:26, Anssi Saari wrote: Greg Wooledge writes: In Gene's case, the problem (long startup time of some applications) does not appear to be related to his disks, but rather, to something in the desktop environment or its underlying services. But isn't it fairly easy to try

Re: raid10 is killing me, and applications that aren't willing towaitfor it to respond

2023-12-16 Thread Anssi Saari
Greg Wooledge writes: > In Gene's case, the problem (long startup time of some applications) does > not appear to be related to his disks, but rather, to something in the > desktop environment or its underlying services. But isn't it fairly easy to try another desktop environment to eliminate

Re: raid10 is killing me, and applications that aren't willing towaitfor it to respond

2023-12-15 Thread Matt
Perhaps that is why I run DWM rather than GNOME on this T60 Thinkpad. :p On 12/15/23 23:23, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 11:05:41PM -0500, Matt wrote: I had to go to Wikipedia to understand the context of the discussion. I did read all the posted emails in the thread.

Re: raid10 is killing me, and applications that aren't willing towaitfor it to respond

2023-12-15 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 11:05:41PM -0500, Matt wrote: > I had to go to Wikipedia to understand the context of the discussion. I did > read all the posted emails in the thread. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID Knowing what RAID is... is good. But ultimately, the main takeaway from this

Re: raid10 is killing me, and applications that aren't willing towaitfor it to respond

2023-12-15 Thread Matt
I had to go to Wikipedia to understand the context of the discussion. I did read all the posted emails in the thread. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID

Re: raid10 is killing me, and applications that aren't willing towaitfor it to respond

2023-12-15 Thread David Christensen
On 12/15/23 18:23, gene heskett wrote: I use the bleeding edge AppImage version of OpenSCAD, heavily, it has no such problems.  And no error outputs on the cli, it Just Works. Thank you for the reply. :-) Do you mean the following? https://openscad.org/downloads.html *** correction ***

Re: raid10 is killing me, and applications that aren't willing towaitfor it to respond

2023-12-15 Thread David Christensen
On 12/15/23 18:23, gene heskett wrote: I use the bleeding edge AppImage version of OpenSCAD, heavily, it has no such problems.  And no error outputs on the cli, it Just Works. Thank you for the reply. :-) Do you mean the following? https://openscad.org/downloads.html

Re: raid10 is killing me, and applications that aren't willing towaitfor it to respond

2023-12-15 Thread gene heskett
On 12/15/23 06:17, David Christensen wrote: On 12/14/23 18:36, gene heskett wrote: On 12/14/23 16:36, Anssi Saari wrote: gene heskett writes: It repeats per gui access. Starting a gfx program such as OpenSCAD, or qidislicer from an xfce4 terminal cli, is delayed for this similar but not