Rich Neswold wrote:

>On 4/13/05, Richard Rauch <rkr@olib.org> wrote:
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>>The short answer is: Yes, I have been seeing the same thing.
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>>I also can see the problem in running shell commands if I ssh
>>into the affected machine from an unaffected machine.  So it's
>>not just in X handing events up and down, etc.
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>I see the same problem. I have a NetBSD/i386 v2.0.1 system running on
>a K6-2 w/768MB RAM. The system doesn't run X: I access it from my
>laptop. After reading Richard's description of the problem, I logged
>in to my system via ssh. I put a 'date' command into the shell's
>history and pressed the up and down arrows. When I saw a pause (which
>on my system lasts for 2 seconds), I printed the date.
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>I did this for several minutes. The pauses occurred approximately 15
>seconds apart. Once in a while I'd get a pause a second or two after a
>fifteen second pause. The next pause would be 12 - 13 seconds later.
>
>I've set the media type on my network interfaces, as recommended in a
>recent email, but it hasn't helped.
>
>The only processes running (besides my shell and init) are ntpd, sshd,
>ipmon, cron, syslogd, dhcpd, lpd, and ifwatchd.
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>I installed v2.0 in January. I don't remember when I first noticed the pauses.
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I've tried, but have not been able to reproduce these issues :-(
It's getting weirder and weirder.

I /can/ reproduce the (probably unrelated) issues I'm seeing with
writing (and reading) large numbers of files, so I'll first follow
my first instinct and try to tune the vm/file-buffer system to see
if that helps.

Regards, Theo