maybe this is the strangely high swap usage that a couple people have seen.
see what your swap usage is before the machine becomes slow and then compare
that to your swap usage after it's slow.

-Chuck


On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 12:09:09PM +1200, Mark Davies wrote:
> We have a problem using current that after a machine has been running for 1 to 
> 2 weeks it gets into a state where performance goes to pot with large amounts 
> of disk activity accompanying any operation.
> eg starting netscape takes over a minute rather than the normal 15 seconds or 
> so.  This persists until you reboot the machine.
> 
> This is with 1.5A on i386 but the problem has been there with any current 
> version we've run back through 1.4P and possibly earlier.  I had been 
> assuming that it was somehow softdep related so upgraded to a new current each
> time significant bugfixes to the softdep code were announced, then waited a
> couple of weeks to see if the problem was still there.  Thinking about it I'm 
> not sure how it could be softdep related as it happens when all you are doing 
> is reading from a filesystem that is not mounted with softdep.
> 
> So can anyone suggest what I can do to try and pin this down?
> 
> cheers
> mark
>