One of the things I first noticed when running the Hurd (particularly because it was running with an old and very noisy HD) was the incredible amount of disk activity compared with exactly the same box running any other OS. This is of course an entirely subjective expression of opinion, and should of course be taken as such :)
Philip DODD > I just found out that > > while touch /tmp/foo; do rm /tmp/foo; done > > causes a lot of disk activity. Further tests showed that the disk is > activated for each rm. Is this a hard requirement? In Linux, the loop > above does not cause any disk activity (except at the beginning and > maybe at the end), it seems to be done completely in the cache. _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
