Hi :) tl;dr: How many pager threads does it take to skrew in a light bulb? One.
[PATCH 1/9] libdiskfs: set the default sync interval to 30 seconds Well, I made this one before I knew that the thread-storm problem might just be gone with this patch series. Still, we should either apply this patch, or fix the documentation. [PATCH 2/9] libports: work around bugs in server termination [PATCH 3/9] libports: reduce malloc overhead in [PATCH 4/9] exec: abbreviate the task name if necessary [PATCH 5/9] ext2fs: fix type of inum [PATCH 6/9] ext2fs: simplify expression Some fixes. [PATCH 7/9] ext2fs: use two distinct pager buckets for the disk and Here is the carrot. Ext2fs has two kinds of pagers. Those have to be separated. [PATCH 8/9] libpager: make libpager single-threaded [PATCH 9/9] libpager: remove all the unused seqno parameters Now the actual change is almost mechanic in nature. Even though, this clearly needs some real-world testing. The packages in hurd-ci contain these changes, and I'm using these on my build host and it seems to be faster (shaved of a minute or two from the ~25 minute debuild step). We will try this change on darnassus and follow-up with the results. Cheers, Justus
