News 2010-06

2010-07-02 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
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

Re: News 2010-06

2010-07-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
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

ext2fs seems to get swapped out

2010-07-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
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