Category: The Hurd

It’s 2016, and the Hurd project is still alive. Barely, as a bunch of only three to five people “regularly” contribute, but it is alive. And it’s making progress. Continue reading “The end of the thundering Hurd”

https://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2014/09/msg00070.html.

For some reason, the system has become more unstable recently. I’ve seen it freeze as soon as swapping memory out. I suspect it’s because of recent changes on the ext2 file system. These changes are good but they expose existing bugs we didn’t suffer from in the past. In order to cope with that, I’ve been using a kernel with no VM object cache, and completely synchronous file system accesses.

https://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2014/06/msg00069.html.

The good news is that the patch may land in upstream soon.