Re: NetBSD-5 unusable under high load

[Johnny Billquist <bqt%softjar.se@localhost>]

Lukas Kaminski wrote:
> hi,
>
> i'm using netbsd-5 from yesterday (netbsd-daily 200901210000Z) on my
> VS4000/90 and noticed, that the computer becomes unresponsive under high
> load. I'm compiling the kernel right now and couldn't do anything else
> on the vax. Even console input is not possible. The same thing happens,
> if someone logs in with ssh. Maybe there is a scheduling issue?

I suspect it's a interrupt lockout issue, but I haven't tried really 
hard to figure it out.
But I think what you're seeing is another aspect of the problems I've 
been talking about for a while...

        Johnny

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