> One thing I've noticed is what I call "blinky-light mode".  During times of
> heavier-than-normal memory activity, often related to X, the system will
> appear to wedge (no mouse tracking, no keyboard echo) for as much as 30
> seconds or a minute.  If I look down at my disk controller status LED, it
> will be flashing on and off at around .5 or 1 Hz, but I will typically not
> hear a lot of seek activity from the drive.  Eventually the drive will start
> seeking and everything will come back to life.
>
> I haven't submitted any kind of bug fix for this for a couple of reasons. 
> On the one hand, I haven't observed this on enough NetBSD systems to feel
> I can claim it's independent of my setup (IDE disks, for example); on the
> other hand, I have held off because of a suspicion that this is a
> long-running bug in the Mach VM code (I saw exactly this behavior under Mach
> 2.6 on a Sparc 1+) and hence unlikely to be fixed quickly.
> 
> Does this match anybody else's observed behavior?

It is known problem, fixed in 1.2.1.

But IMHO, no VM algoritms can make ghostview fast with 8MB memory.

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Zdenek Salvet                                              salvet@ics.muni.cz 
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