Email, id:"[email protected]" (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
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IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-09-22
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