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Daemons waiting for commands hardly consume any resources at all

Daemons waiting for commands hardly consume any resources at all

Posted Nov 4, 2007 23:58 UTC (Sun) by job (guest, #670)
In reply to: Daemons waiting for commands hardly consume any resources at all by hummassa
Parent article: Ubuntu Developer Summit lays out vision for strong Hardy Heron release (ars technica)

But lack of RAM is why a five year old average laptop is slow today (because of swapping), and
the CPU is just not a bottleneck for most applications.


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