Re: Performance of Hurd in a VM
On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 03:41:16PM +0800, Malina Sulca wrote:
> Indeed, I used these options and now the system is really usable,
> thank you Svante. I'd like to point out that this problem occurs only
> with Hurd, whenever the next version is available I'll try again with
> the default cache.
Our page cache is known to behave terribly badly, for historical reasons
that aren't easy to fix. This, combined with our old I/O drivers, is
what makes the Hurd slow. Keep the writeback option around.
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Richard Braun
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