xfce not recommended for z530 fit-pc2
Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 2:55 pm
The xfce 'terminal' program causes the cpu meter to show continuous usage that doesn't settle down. You can see this effect in full slackware running xfce applications. If you substitute a custom-compiled version of lxterminal, which has the same capabilities as terminal, the continuous usage spikes of the cpu meter disappear.
Something like this happens under Windows 7 (waiting for delivery of Windows 8 at the moment), with the Windows 7 cpu meter running at 99% for lengthy periods of Time. You can temporarily stop this from happening by running the Windows disk defragmenter. The problem seems to result from some mismatch between the file systems in use and the hardware.
Under Linux, the very latest kernels are supposed to have a bug in them that leads to instabilities on Linux ext4 file systems on a general range of computers, such that a seemingly stable installation using the ext4 file system crashes after several uses. Something similar may be happening in Windows as well.
Above not a complete description.
Something like this happens under Windows 7 (waiting for delivery of Windows 8 at the moment), with the Windows 7 cpu meter running at 99% for lengthy periods of Time. You can temporarily stop this from happening by running the Windows disk defragmenter. The problem seems to result from some mismatch between the file systems in use and the hardware.
Under Linux, the very latest kernels are supposed to have a bug in them that leads to instabilities on Linux ext4 file systems on a general range of computers, such that a seemingly stable installation using the ext4 file system crashes after several uses. Something similar may be happening in Windows as well.
Above not a complete description.