Rene Herman schrieb:

On 07/27/2007 01:48 PM, Mike Galbraith wrote:

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I believe the users who say their apps really do get paged back in
though, so suspect that's not the case.

Stopping the bush-circumference beating, I do not. -ck (and gentoo) have 
this massive Calimero thing going among their users where people are much 
less interested in technology than in how the nasty big kernel meanies are 
keeping them down (*).

I think the problem is elsewhere. Users don't say: "My apps get paged
back in." They say: "My system is more responsive". They really don't
care *why* the reaction to a mouse click that takes three seconds with
a mainline kernel is instantaneous with -ck. Nasty big kernel meanies,
OTOH, want to understand *why* a patch helps in order to decide whether
it is really a good idea to merge it. So you've got a bunch of patches
(aka -ck) which visibly improve the overall responsiveness of a desktop
system, but apparently no one can conclusively explain why or how they
achieve that, and therefore they cannot be merged into mainline.

I don't have a solution to that dilemma either.

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