Hurd usage questions.
My interest in the Hurd seems to be growing lately.
I find over the past four days, I've been running the Hurd more than I
have Linux. This assures me that I'm at least going to want to stick with
this project for awhile, so I won't feel so wrong taking a workload on.
I still have a lot to learn, hopefully some of these questions can be
answered.
Since the Hurd crashes on me still, (or I crash it, whatever :) it tends
to leave the filesystem dirty. How can I fsck it from the Hurd? I only
have that one partition and fsck.ext2 warns me that running it on a
mounted filesystem can cause severe damage. Eep.
Personally, I think it'd be a little more conveniant if you could instruct
ext2fs.static to fsck the partition so it won't be so suprised. It'd make
it easier to synchronize things, methinks.
Also, the system I'm on has 16 megs of RAM (and 64 megs of swap).
ext2fs.static is huge compared to ext2fs. What kind of magic can I go
through to replace the dynamically linked one? Running simple commands
pages to disk and I just know it's ext2fs.static being brought in and out
of secondary storage. Unless someone tells me how to prove otherwise. :)
I have the same problem some other fellow reported but it doesn't
seem to have been answered yet, so I'll reiterate. I'd like to "mount"
some Linux partitions but if I make devices for them, trying to ls -l /dev
will freeze on the devices I just created. What gives?
The system's memory management seems degenerative. Either that, or some
servers are leaking memory. (My system becomes unusable after 15+ hours of
uptime). What can I do to pinpoint a leaky process outside of looking at
the mem usage in 'ps' ?
Also, what the heck are the processes ps reports as '-' ? Their "pids" are
2 and 3.
Last question. It takes a few minutes and failed attempts for pfinet to
finally start handling packets properly. On a fresh boot, if I try to ping
something outside of the local net, it doesn't appear to send any packets.
I usually have to ping the ip address held by pfinet, then a machine on
the local network, the gateway, and then I can finally reach something
outside. Is this a known problem?
Thanks a lot. I hope the investment you make in answering my questions now
can be returned some day. :)
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