Ubuntu's secret ?

[never-never-land]

Hi guys, it's a bit long - try to bear with me...
ever since I started to get to know Linux, I had a chance to try numerous distros and I noticed that most of them (since they're all based on linux kernel) don't have any performance difference other the one you get using a Various D.E. (i.e. gnome, Xfce...).
Yet there are 2 distros that seems to have an extra edge over the others: Sabayon & Ubuntu, while sabayon gives the fastest raw performance, Ubuntu has a uniqe way of dealing with multitasking meaning I can open many tasks in the background yet my PC would barely slow down or lag, but the really interesting part is that in every other OS/distro when your PC starts lagging you have to immediately stop executing more task! - in Ubuntu on the other hand even if I keep executing tasks it's eventually catching up the pace (relatively quick).
I read that both use different kinds of "Service Management Facility": OpenRC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenRC) (sabayon), Upstart (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upstart) (ubuntu). and I'm curious whether this is the cause of that behaviour or is it something else?

would appreciate any help or guidance on that matter!
tnx in advance

[ratcheer]

Interesting question. I usually look at the various startup utilities in terms of how you manage them, not subsequent system performance. I am not sure I understand how this could make a difference, unless they start things with different options. A lot of tasks is a lot of tasks, regardless of how they were started.

But I have only recently started using Sabayon and I first found out about OpenRC, yesterday. It seems much more generic than Upstart. But, I haven't really dug into it, yet.

Tim

[sffvba[e0rt]

Being a very big distro-hopper (I am sure it can be classified as a disease) I can truly say I haven't noticed any kind of performance boost/decrease between different distro's apart from the different DE at times.


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