On Sat, Jun 06, 2026 at 10:48:17AM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > The Debian host on which I test Hurd is dual-boot (Linux/Testing, > Hurd/Unstable). Running 'apt-get update' takes about one minute on > Linux, but a full hour on Hurd. The host has 3 Gb of RAM and 2 Gb of > swap. I cannot help but wonder what makes such a simple operation so > slow on Hurd. Am I missing anything?
Hello, Yes, decades of applied computer science, in particular around the page cache and I/O scheduling. It seems as it is "such a simple operation", but as is often the case, when you look more deeply into it, it's really not. -- Richard Braun
