state of Fedora kernel and Desktop use?

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 22:48:59 +0200,
  Linus Walleij <triad at df.lth.se> wrote:
> fre 2008-10-24 klockan 13:05 +0200 skrev Valent Turkovic:
> 
> All in all, there are popping up some real nice interactivity features
> in the kernel, but AFAIK noone is really working on using them in the
> desktop usecase.

It's not working so nice in rawhide. I am seeing copying data to an encrypted
usb drive lock up the X server for times on the order of a minute (presumably
when it needs to page something in). Very annoying. At least it recovers.
When combined with high memory use, sometimes the whole machine locks up
and a reboot is necessary to clear things up.