Subject: Re: unified buffers and responsibility
To: None <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: Gary Thorpe <gat7634@hotmail.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/12/2002 21:43:32
>From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
>To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@chylonia.3miasto.net>
>CC: tech-kern@netbsd.org
>Subject: Re: unified buffers and responsibility
>Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 21:36:21 +0200
>
>On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 12:19:47PM +0000, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> > after configurind 1.6B with vm.* sysctl's system doesn't swap out
> > almost everything and works mostly fine.
> >
> > hovewer when doing things like cp hugefile anotherplace
> > system is almost unusable while copying!!!
> >
> > there are so swapping but using for example navigator is impossible.
> > even writing something in xterm is SLOW!!!!
> >
> > this never happened with 1.5.2!!!!!
> >
> > where is a problem?
> >
> > while most of things are much faster in 1.6 this is terribly bad.
> >
> > it's quite similar to linux in that case.
>
>This may be related to your hardware because I can't reproduce this on
>my systems.
>
>--
>Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
>--

Isn't the proper way to troubleshoot problems to tackle the most likely 
problems? If it worked with 1.5.2, assume the hardware is good? *Maybe*, 
just maybe it is the software?

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