> > not only think but see and already did send-pr.
> >
> > on heavy disk usage whole machine slows down incredibly and there are 5-10
> > seconds reaction in X programs. using navigator etc. is almost impossible.
>
> That's because, I believe, you have not yet properly tuned your system
> (i.e. your kernel and perhaps also some of the "tunable" resources) for
> your most common application mix.

any hints?

>
> > it NEVER happened in 1.5.2!
>
> That's because 1.5.2 doesn't have UBC and can't be mis-tuned.  It always
> behaves "badly" for everything and every type of use.  ;-)

could you say how to tune 1.6 to make it behave "badly"?

this "badly" behaviour was excellent.


>
> > > is this your claim that the max/min memory usage sysctls aren't working?
> >
> > yes it is. try vm.filemin=1 and vm.filemax=2 and then copy something
> > large.
> >
> > even if most of memory is used by apps they will be swapped and file usage
> > exceeds 20% !!!
>
> I have noticed that the latest release of Mozilla (i.e. 1.0) comes to
> life far more slowly after long periods of inactivity, even under the
> very same kernel and on the same unchanged hardware, than earlier
> versions did.  Are you sure this isn't all you're seeing -- i.e. some
> change in the patterns of memory use in the applications you're using?

nothing were changed except netbsd base binaries and kernel.




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