Re: Very bad interactive response, and awful amount of system time

[Mindaugas Rasiukevicius <rmind%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Hello,

Rhialto <rhialto%falu.nl@localhost> wrote:
> I am currently rebuilding all my packages for NetBSD 5.0, with pkg_comp,
> using the GENERIC kernel.  This keeps my single-CPU system rather busy.
> (Asus A8V DeLuxe)
> 
> I noted that the interactive response of other tasks suffered
> progressively more and more under the load. At one point, it had gotten
> so bad that getting an echo in an xterm took seconds! (Of course,
> complex programs like Firefox suffered even worse)

Can you please try to apply this change:

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2009/05/31/msg221857.html

It might fix the your problem. Change is already waiting for pull-up into
the netbsd-5 branches.

-- 
Best regards,
Mindaugas