What breakage does this actually fix?

Posted Jun 9, 2016 4:26 UTC (Thu) by xtifr (guest, #143)
In reply to: What breakage does this actually fix? by johannbg
Parent article: Distributors ponder a systemd change

Or maybe dad doesn't *want* to leave *all* his processes running and consuming resources. Maybe his machine simply isn't powerful enough to have five (two parents, three kids) complete desktop sessions all running, but is powerful enough to keep a couple of relatively lightweight emacs daemons or screen sessions running. Maybe he tried fast user switching and saw it bring his machine to its knees.

Not everyone has a screaming, top-of-the-line, latest model machine with all the trimmings. Especially those who are trying to feed three or more children! :)

What breakage does this actually fix?

Posted Jun 9, 2016 10:37 UTC (Thu) by NAR (subscriber, #1313) [Link] (1 responses)

Granted, I have used fast user switching only on Windows, but it didn't seem to slow down the system. There might be some swapping at the user switch, but otherwise the left processes shouldn't use much CPU (unless dad was encoding DVD - in that case the process killing would be a even worse solution).

What breakage does this actually fix?

Posted Jun 9, 2016 21:45 UTC (Thu) by mstone_ (subscriber, #66309) [Link]

"some swapping"

^^^ lol, yeah, the machine's unusable for several minutes every time someone "fast" user switches.