On 2005.07.14 01:50:26 +0000, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
 | 
 | I'm transferring a 20GB-file to my PC (running netbsd-3),  and the system 
 | is hanging every 1-3 secconds for a  bit to free memory. This also maakes 
 | they keyboard repeat keyys at random, which makes the sysstem somewhat 
 | useless.
 | 
 | Would it be possible to  teach the VM system to not hit performance thhat 
 | bad for files where it's clear they are sequentially writteen only once, 
 | without any need to cache them that aaggesssively?

Maybe this is related to interrupt (nic, harddrive and keyboard)
handling code ?

		-- Rui Paulo