Mark Cullen wrote:
> Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 10:39:34AM +0200, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
>>
>>> and there are countless interesting threads about this on the mailing
>>> list archives as well, e.g. this one: 
>>> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-perform/2005/10/28/0000.html
>>
>>
>>
>> Sorry, the actual thread continues after this post:
>> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2005/10/28/0018.html
>> (same post, other list). 
>>     Geert
>>
> 
> I think that helped a bit, but I am still noticing about 10 second 
> delays when trying to run, top and mbmon for instance, while unpacking 
> pkgsrc.tar.gz. No swap is being used at all.
> 
> I'll try out that BUFQ option. I was a little bit hesitant to use it 
> because of the freezing issues I had read about though. I can't find 
> anywhere saying they've been fixed.
> 
> Thanks
> 

Well, I think there may well be a definate improvement. I'm doing an `rm 
-rf pkgsrc` and `tar -xzf pkgsrc.tar.gz -C ./p2` simultaneously and 
things are seeming pretty responsive. I'm still seeing small delays in 
some things, but it's no where near as bad.

Are there any plans to tweak the default VM sysctl's a little bit any 
time in the near future?

Is having that BUFQ option enabled likely to lead to data corruption?