Lucifer Morningstar wrote:
On Wed, 12 Jul 2017 17:44:28 -0500, Lynn McGuire
wrote:

"24-core CPU and I can’t move my mouse"

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/20...move-my-mouse/

"This story begins, as they so often do, when I noticed that my machine
was behaving poorly. My Windows 10 work machine has 24 cores (48
hyper-threads) and they were 50% idle. It has 64 GB of RAM and that was
less than half used. It has a fast SSD that was mostly idle. And yet, as
I moved the mouse around it kept hitching – sometimes locking up for
seconds at a time."

Interesting. And he is a Google software developer for Chrome.

Sounds made up. I can't imagine a work machine using a SSD.
Maybe the SSD is worn out.

On a build machine, one with parallelization, you want
executables to launch quickly. The header files are
stored on the SSD. When multiple compile processes are
reading in header files, you want that process to be fast too.

You should try building software like this some time,
and see how it works. Try it with -j12 or whatever.

If you spent a couple grand on a 24 core processor, yes,
you're going to spend a hundred bucks on an SSD. With a
seek time of 100usec, it's worth it.

You have to get over this fixation of yours. Using the SSD
as a fast source for file reads, is a great use for it.

It would work even better, if NTFS wasn't a bottleneck.

Paul