[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] [[!tag open_issue_hurd]] IRC, unknown channel, unknown date azeem: I think I found why apt-get throws Hurd down sometimes the problem is that it basically write(file, 20MB); fsync(); i.e. it throws a storm of dirty-writeback to ext2fs which thus goes into throttling threads since posix explicitely says that fsync() can be void, I think I'll patch apt-get on the buildd (that bug has bitten me too many times in the past days to let it go further) for now it works * youpi crosses fingers