Odi's astoundingly incomplete notes

Usually I don't blog about Windows. But since I (have to) use it at work I am exposed to its flaws. Today I am particularly annoyed by the slowness of Eclipse, which is mainly caused by a lot of disk activity (due to a large number of large projects checked out) which is utterly slow on Windows (XP). Occasionally Eclipse would become unresponsive. What happens then is:

• Eclipse widgets clutter the screen: an opened menu stays on top of all other windows.
• The task bar becomes unusable: clicking the window buttons doesn't do anything. At the same time some of them start blinking like crazy.
• Although some window is highlighted the input focus is somewhere else.
• The whole system becomes slow and sluggish.

This all creates the impression that the OS has fallen victim to an application which has taken control over the UI outside of its window. And the IO scheduler has fallen victim to an application. Somehow I would expect the OS to be in control and not some application.


posted on 2010-01-15 10:10 CET in General | 2 comments | permalink