On: AMD EPYC “Rome” Server Processors to Feature 8 to ...

[Zekio]

Well depending on if the rumors about the 64 core Threadripper are true you could do that later this year or maybe early next year

[MuffinFlavored → Zekio]

and still have some I/O operation block your entire GUI/OS :D

[vbezhenar → MuffinFlavored]

More likely sleep with lock.

[mfatica → MuffinFlavored]

elaborate?

[Rebelgecko → mfatica]

I think they're pointing out that many of the bottlenecks that make computers feel slow can't be fixed by throwing more cores at them—multithreading can be tricky

[astrodust → Rebelgecko]

You could have 128 cores, 4TB of memory, multiple top-end NVMe drives and Windows will still lock up when accessing an offline network share.

Good job Microsoft.

[Zekio → astrodust]

you can solve that by ticking a checkmark in `Folder Options` that puts folders in separate processes

[jtl999 → astrodust]

I had that issue with OS X 10.11 and disconnecting my Thunderbolt NIC without umounting cleanly.

Argh