On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 03:11:25PM +0100, Ludovic Court?s wrote: > > But anyway, for a performance comparison between Hurd and Linux to be > > meaningful, one would have to do it on the same or at least pretty > > similar hardware. I just wanted to point out that I wouldn't expect > > all kinds of heavy disk mangling to necessarily imply heavy cpu > > activity. > > Well, that's a very subjective observation but on the same machine under > Linux, doing the same kind of operation (unpacking stuff), X looks much > more 'reactive' than what I actually noticed under the Hurd.
I recall seeing "nice() failed" messages the last time I tried X under the Hurd, I think that's the reason for this. Try setting the X priority to the same value as all other processes imder GNU/Linux and start doing unpacking stuff. I'm sure you get the same behaviour. Jeroen Dekkers -- Jabber supporter - http://www.jabber.org Jabber ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org http://www.gnu.org IRC: jeroen@openprojects
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