On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 05:53:31AM +0000, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> NetBSD 2.0_RC3 and the release candidates before work fine for me:
> 
> tron@colwyn:~>uname -sr
> NetBSD 2.0_RC3
> tron@colwyn:~>uptime
>  6:51AM  up 44 days, 17:31, 4 users, load averages: 2.11, 1.75, 1.44
> 
> The machine above is used as multi purpose server (e.g. Mail and NFS)
> and has often to deal with a lot of I/O load e.g. when I run CVS updates
> or package builds.

Well, our server works OK, too, but the interactively used machines are
having problems.  I guess gimp uses memory and disk pretty heavily and
xine appears to use threads (which aren't used by gcc, for example).

> Have you tried to disable soft dependences?

I did that now (even at kernel level, I think editing fstab wasn't
enough (tried that before)).

> Have you checked if your
> partition tables is correct and you don't have an overlap between
> a swap and FFS partition?

I think it's ok:

#        size    offset     fstype [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
 a:   2064321        63     4.2BSD   1024  8192     0  # (Cyl.      0*-2047)
 b:  33030144   2064384       swap                     # (Cyl.   2048 -34815)
 c: 390721905        63     unused      0     0        # (Cyl.      0*-387620)
 d: 390721968         0     unused      0     0        # (Cyl.      0 -387620)
 e:  33030144  35094528     4.2BSD   2048 16384     0  # (Cyl.  34816 -67583)
 f:   4194288  68124672     4.2BSD   1024  8192     0  # (Cyl.  67584 -71744)
 g:  66060288  72318960     4.2BSD   1024  8192     0  # (Cyl.  71745 -137280)
 h:  33030144 138379248     4.2BSD   1024  8192     0  # (Cyl. 137281 -170048)
 i: 219311568 171409392     4.2BSD   2048 16384     0  # (Cyl. 170049 -387619)

  -jm