> > The reason I'm curious is that we are once again having
> > problems with occasional 15-20 second "lockups" of the
> > machines when they start swapping. [...]
>
> Me too.  The same happens on i386 and Sparc.  Pretty annoying. :-(

You guys may want to go back and read Sean Doran's message sent
to port-sparc on August 10 under the subject "System slowdown
during paging", where he suggests tweaking the MAXSLP define in
/sys/arch/xxx/include/vmparam.h.

- Havard