Re: sluggish APT update on Hurd

June 6, 2026 at 3:48 AM, "Martin-=C3=89ric Racine" <martin-eric.racine@ik=
i.fi mailto:[email protected]?to=3D%22Martin-%C3%89ric%20Racine%2=
2%20%3Cmartin-eric.racine%40iki.fi%3E > wrote:



>=20
>=20Greetings,
>=20
>=20The Debian host on which I test Hurd is dual-boot (Linux/Testing,
> Hurd/Unstable). Running 'apt-get update' takes about one minute on
> Linux, but a full hour on Hurd. The host has 3 Gb of RAM and 2 Gb of
> swap. I cannot help but wonder what makes such a simple operation so
> slow on Hurd. Am I missing anything?
>=20
>=20Cheers!
> Martin-=C3=89ric


I'm running the Hurd on real hardware: T420 wih 12 or 16GB of RAM.

Updating takes  10 minutes tops for me.  *shrugs shoulders*

I am using an SSD.

Joshua