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Re: New installation CDs and qemu image
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Richard Braun |
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Re: New installation CDs and qemu image |
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Tue, 18 Mar 2014 14:36:12 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 02:27:02PM +0100, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> Also, if I can fix this installation, I'd prefer.. it took me two
> days to reinstall hurd: not continuously attented, but the operation
> was quite slow.. CD-ROM and HDD seem to be quite slow in access,
> especially the former.
It's not disk access that is slow. It's the page cache that is in bad
shape. It could also be due to a writeback caused thread storm (a kind
of thundering herd problem with spin locks in userspace). If any
potential GSoC candidate is reading this, fixing that particular issue
is one project we'd very much appreciate mentoring.
--
Richard Braun
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- Re: New installation CDs and qemu image, Riccardo Mottola, 2014/03/12
- Re: New installation CDs and qemu image, Riccardo Mottola, 2014/03/18
- Re: New installation CDs and qemu image, Richard Braun, 2014/03/18
- Re: New installation CDs and qemu image, Riccardo Mottola, 2014/03/18
- Re: New installation CDs and qemu image, Gabriele Giacone, 2014/03/18
- Re: New installation CDs and qemu image, Richard Braun, 2014/03/18
- Re: New installation CDs and qemu image, Riccardo Mottola, 2014/03/18
- Re: New installation CDs and qemu image, Riccardo Mottola, 2014/03/18
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- Re: New installation CDs and qemu image, Riccardo Mottola, 2014/03/19