ext2fs seems to get swapped out
Hello, Still having a glance at memleaks: 9 S 545M 35.6M 29.6 6.5 /hurd/ext2fs -A /dev/hd2 This seems a lot. And actually, killing it frees a couple of 100MiB swap space. AIUI, this means that some pages of ext2fs get swapped instead of written back by ext2fs. I can understand how that could happen if ext2fs is quite busy and can't answer to gnumach requests fast enough, but shouldn't there be a mechanism to clear this up when more memory is available to perform it? Samuel
Re: News 2010-06
Arne Babenhauserheide, le Fri 02 Jul 2010 21:23:52 +0200, a écrit : > I just wrote the Month of the Hurd for last month. > > A month of the Hurd: *initrd*, *clustered page-in* and *auth server fixes*. > > > This month Jérémie Koenig wrote a > > [preliminary > > patch](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-06/msg00047.html) > > to add initrd support in Mach for the Debian installer. It is worth mentioning that with all his various fixes, he ended up installing a hurd system from d-i! There were still hacks here and there, but that means the d-i project will most probably be successful. It might also be worth mentioning that I fixed a leak in the pfinet server which would usually push buildds on their knees after 3-4 days building packages. Since then, bach (on which I could just restart pfinet without even interrupting the builds going on) has been continuously building stuff for 7 full days now, and still going on. Samuel
News 2010-06
Hi, I just wrote the Month of the Hurd for last month. A month of the Hurd: *initrd*, *clustered page-in* and *auth server fixes*. > This month Jérémie Koenig wrote a > [preliminary > patch](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-06/msg00047.html) > to add initrd support in Mach for the Debian installer. > > Also Karim Allah Amed added the > [first > patch](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-06/msg00023.html) > to port the clustered paging-in from OSF Mach to GNU Mach which should > improve the virtual memory performance of the Hurd. > > And Carl Fredrik Hammar added patches to improve the stability of the auth > server ( > [port > death](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-06/msg3.html) and > [null > port](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-06/msg00019.html)). Please tell me what I missed! Best wishes, Arne
