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diff --git a/faq/slow.mdwn b/faq/slow.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..cb6c4655 --- /dev/null +++ b/faq/slow.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2013 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]]."]]"""]] + +[[!meta title="Is the Hurd slow?"]] + +The Hurd is currently slower than Linux, yes. But not very much, so it is +completely usable. + +Take care when running the Hurd in fully-virtualized machines: virtualization +software use ugly heuristics to make Linux run faster, which will not work on +the Hurd (or BSD, etc.) so comparisons in virtualized environments do not really +hold. + +The main reason for slowness is *not* because of the overhead of RPCs. It's +mostly simply because less care has been done on implementing what makes Linux +fast: intelligent read-ahead, carefully-tuned page cache, etc. + +There is no ground reason this can not be achieved on GNU/Hurd, it has just not +been a priority until now (first make it work, then make it work fast). We are +currently working on multi-page pager and read-ahead, which should improve this +a lot. |