Jakub Misak wrote:
>>Are you running many memory hungry applications at the same time, like
>>kde, firefox, thunderbird, gimp, etc. If you're running out of RAM and
>>your machine is swapping, things can get pretty slow. You can see swap
>>statistics by running 'swapctl -lk'
> 
> 
> No, I was running only Xfce desktop, Firefox and xterm. It's not a memory 
> issue, 512 MB RAM is more than enough for this.
> 
Do you know how to compile a custom NetBSD kernel? I'm thinking about a 
few things you could try and see if that makes a difference. I'll gather 
some info and post it in the next reply