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diff --git a/open_issues/performance/degradation.mdwn b/open_issues/performance/degradation.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..db759308 --- /dev/null +++ b/open_issues/performance/degradation.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2011 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="Degradation of GNU/Hurd ``system performance''"]] + +Email, *id:"87mxg2ahh8.fsf@kepler.schwinge.homeip.net"* (bug-hurd, 2011-07-25, +Thomas Schwinge) + +> Building a certain GCC configuration on a freshly booted system: 11 h. +> Remove build tree, build it again (2nd): 12 h 50 min. Huh. Remove build +> tree, reboot, build it again (1st): back to 11 h. Remove build tree, build +> it again (2nd): 12 h 40 min. Remove build tree, build it again (3rd): 15 h. + +IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-07-23: + + < antrik> tschwinge: yes, the system definitely gets slower with + time. after running for a couple of weeks, it needs at least twice as + long to open a new shell for example + < antrik> I don't know whether this is only related to swap usage, or there + are some serious fragmentation issues + < braunr> antrik: both could be induced by fragmentation + +--- + +During [[IPC_virtual_copy]] testing: + +IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-09-02: + + <manuel> interestingly, running it several times has made the performance + drop quite much (i'm getting 400-500MB/s with 1M now, compared to nearly + 800 fifteen minutes ago) + <braunr> manuel: i observed the same behaviour + [...] |