Re: Build times of hurd and glibc for different versions of gnumach, hurd and glibc

[Samuel Thibault]

Richard Braun, on Mon 18 Apr 2016 01:29:13 +0200, wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 10:24:32PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Looking at ps -feMj, it seems that it's ext2fs which consumes much more
> > CPU time, thus increasing overall wallclock time. It'd probably be
> > interesting to profile ext2fs, to see what takes longer. Perhaps it's
> > the hash table which is less efficient since with the new page cache
> > policy there are much more cached files?
> 
> There are undeniably more scalability issues to tackle, but I strongly
> think we shouldn't revert the work that has been done.

I'm not saying we should revert the work :)

I'm saying I'm reverting it to work around the issue on buildds for now.
Perhaps we can also apply the revert on the debian package.

Samuel