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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/open_issues/performance/io_system/binutils_ld_64ksec.mdwn b/open_issues/performance/io_system/binutils_ld_64ksec.mdwn
index 60dca510..86450576 100644
--- a/open_issues/performance/io_system/binutils_ld_64ksec.mdwn
+++ b/open_issues/performance/io_system/binutils_ld_64ksec.mdwn
@@ -12,8 +12,9 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
This one may be considered as a testcase for I/O system optimization.
-It is taken from the [[binutils_testsuite]], `ld/ld-elf/sec64k.exp`, where this
-test may occasionally [[trigger a timeout|binutils_testsuite#64ksec]]. It is
+It is taken from the [[binutils testsuite|binutils/testsuite]],
+`ld/ld-elf/sec64k.exp`, where this
+test may occasionally [[trigger a timeout|binutils/testsuite#64ksec]]. It is
extracted from cdf7c161ebd4a934c9e705d33f5247fd52975612 sources, 2010-10-24.
$ wget -O - http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/open_issues/performance/io_system/binutils_ld_64ksec/test.tar.xz | xz -d | tar -x
@@ -26,7 +27,7 @@ On the idle grubber, this one repeatedly takes a few minutes wall time to
complete successfully, contrary to a few seconds on a GNU/Linux system.
While processing the object files, there is heavy interaction with the relevant
-[[hurd/translator/ext2fs]] process . Running [[hurd/debugging/rpctrace]] on
+[[hurd/translator/ext2fs]] process. Running [[hurd/debugging/rpctrace]] on
the testee shows that (primarily) an ever-repeating series of `io_seek` and
`io_read` is being processed. Running the testee on GNU/Linux with strace
shows the equivalent thing (`_llseek`, `read`) -- but Linux' I/O system isn't