Hurd Latencies -- Questions...

[Brent Fulgham <bfulgham@xpsystems.com>]

Anyone using the hurd for non-trivial tasks (such as compiling
large packages, etc.) can attest to the fact that there is a
noticable difference in speed between the hurd and Linux
running on the same hardware.

I was wondering if any profiling had been done to determine
where the time is being spent.  Is it due to the overhead
of RPC?  Is it because of poor swap memory allocation?
Is it something else entirely?

The reason I bring it up is not to complain, but to see
if there were any known issues that could be addressed
by some of us Debian folks.  While expanding the number
of ready-to-run software packages is fun, it would also
be neat to help with some of the performance issues...

Thanks,

-Brent