Subject: Re: NetBSD Problem Report #3892
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: current-users
Date: 02/10/1999 14:58:51
Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> writes:
>  "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> wrote:
>  > We still have serious trouble swapping over NFS.
> 
> We do?  I think the problem in this case is that the pagedaemon can't
> keep up with memory demand.
> 
> Either:
> 
> 	(a) Pages simply aren't being cleaned fast enough.
>  -or-
> 	(b) Clean pages aren't moving from the inactive list to the free
> 	    list fast enough.

Incidently, I noticed an ugly problem with paging to local disk, too,
last night -- when I ran out of physmem the machine went bonkers.

Perry