Subject: Re: NetBSD Problem Report #3892
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: current-users
Date: 02/10/1999 14:58:51
Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> writes:
> "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> wrote:
> > We still have serious trouble swapping over NFS.
>
> We do? I think the problem in this case is that the pagedaemon can't
> keep up with memory demand.
>
> Either:
>
> (a) Pages simply aren't being cleaned fast enough.
> -or-
> (b) Clean pages aren't moving from the inactive list to the free
> list fast enough.
Incidently, I noticed an ugly problem with paging to local disk, too,
last night -- when I ran out of physmem the machine went bonkers.
Perry