On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 04:18:05PM +0100, Philip Dodd wrote: > 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 :) >
Well, of course we know about this problem in general. And trust me that it has been worse two years ago :) Linux has a very superb caching for the filesystem, while we have no equivalent caching (we just have the pager). However, I was wondering about whether this particular sequence of commands requires disk activity. Maybe it's just a bug somewhere that can be fixed. Implementing a proper caching strategy would be a very good task, but it is not easy. Thanks, Marcus _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
