Joshua Branson, le ven. 25 oct. 2024 22:28:30 -0400, a ecrit: > - When I choose to upgrade the Hurd after starting i3, I patiently > wait for the upgrade to finish. I do not use any other programs > or switch workspaces. When I have done so in the past, many times > the Hurd slowed to a crawl and eventually X locked up on me.
> I am using a T43 with 1.5 Gb of RAM, so maybe the hardware with > limited resources is to blame? Possibly. Personally my VMs always have at least 2GiB and I don't run Xorg, so it can be just lack of memory. Do you have swap enabled? The out-of-memory situation is one of the most difficult things in computer science, and that hasn't really been that much tackled in the Hurd, so it's not really surprising. Maybe passing --sync=5 to your ext2fs could help fsysopts / --sync=5 to make it flush to disk more often. That being said, we definitely need to fix this, it's also making buildds crawl to a halt while building some large packages. Samuel
