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
