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The funniest thing is that i run Debian Sarge on my laptop, and i have the=
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same problem. I use KDE.

kfir=20

On Wednesday 13 April 2005 16:31, you wrote:
> Dear list members,
>
> I regulary use one of several different NetBSD2.0/i386 desktop
> machines, and have sometimes noticed an intermittent "non-
> responsivenes", which has started to anoy me. Sometimes my
> mouse will "just stop moving", sometimes things will become
> "sluggish" for several seconds. This does even happen when no
> swap is being used, so a general "lack of memory" does not seem
> to be the issue.
>
> The machines cover a range of hardware, from a 1.4 GHz P4 with 256
> MB ram, to AMD64's with 1.5 GB ram at 2GHZ. All of these machines
> have local harddisks for swap and root, some use local /usr and
> /home, others use NFS mounted volumes. In all these machines are
> fairly well equiped to run X, mozilla, nedit, openoffice and the
> like, so I expect that more people are seeing similar issues,
> and either have chosen to ignore this (as I did so far), or have
> tuned their system to get better interactive responsiveness.
>
> Are there any general tuning guidelines, perhaps a FAQ or manual?
>
> Are the default settings reasonable defaults for any machine role
> (NFS-server, database-server, desktop-machine etcetera), or are
> they just a smallest denominator?
>
> Though it may be unrelated to the "non-responsiveness" issue,
> a little test program writing 8192 files of 1MB each reveals
> that there is a certain "spikiness" in the timing of writing each
> 1MB file. In particular at ~30 second intervals, it can suddenly
> take >2 seconds to write a file instead of the (more usual)
> < 0.1 seconds. What could this be, and can this be avoided by
> proper tuning?
>
> I have fiddled a bit with some sysctl parameters, but have so
> far not been able to come up with anything very usefull; perhaps
> because I'm looking in the wrong direction?
>
> with kind regards,
>
> Theo Borm

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