Hi,
compiling oskit really stresses the Hurd. It takes many hours on my machine.
But when I checked after 8 hours, it seemed to make slow progress, so I
interrupted it and looked at the state of the machine.
I found out that the ext2fs.static process on /mnt, where the compilation
happened, had 137 threads and 1062 ports. But the root filesystem had
1817 threads and 7808 ports.
Would you consider this to be normal? With those numbers, the system felt
terrible slow, the caching of the ext2fs was defunct (every keypress made
the drive led blink), and I could see how text was printed character by
character. On the other hand, after portinfo 4 the system got up speed
again. (Until I listed all threads in gdb).
In such situations, the system is not acting optimally it seems.
Shouldn't ports go away again? (I have the output of vmstat, ps aux and gdb
on pid 4 here).
Thanks,
Marcus
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