Re: Confusion about where to go in Hurd

2007-08-01 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 09:17:49PM -0400, Michael Casadevall wrote: Hurdng - the project of porting hurd translators to another microkernel beside mach such as L4. That is not fully correct. The original port to L4 was simply named Hurd/L4 -- which is exactly what it was: A port of the

Re: Confusion about where to go in Hurd

2007-08-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED], le Wed 01 Aug 2007 18:30:20 +0200, a écrit : The main reason parts of Hurd are slow and such is that code in the translators (such as the pager code in ext2fs) haven't been optimized. Well, that is only partially true: Nobody has ever really profiled it; but my

Re: Confusion about where to go in Hurd

2007-08-01 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 01:33:12PM +0200, Anders Breindahl wrote: I recall something about fork()s being expensive on the Hurd/Mach, and that someone ran tests that showed 500forks per second versus a somewhat larger figure on Linux. The somewhat larger figure was actually something like

Re: Confusion about where to go in Hurd

2007-07-26 Thread Anders Breindahl
On 200707252117, Michael Casadevall wrote: First, I think its very important to clarify the terms Hurd and mach Mach - the underlying microkernel used by all versions of Hurd Hurd - the userland translators which snap into the kernel providing userland services, and (in theory) are

Re: Confusion about where to go in Hurd

2007-07-25 Thread Michael Casadevall
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Very long message :-). Anyway, I'll reply to the best of my ability First, I think its very important to clarify the terms Hurd and mach Mach - the underlying microkernel used by all versions of Hurd Hurd - the userland translators which snap into