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Date:      Thu, 16 Feb 2006 01:55:20 -0500
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Odd performance problems after upgrade from 4.11 to 6.0-Stable
Message-ID:  <20060216065520.GA66655@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060213022747.6878E45041@ptavv.es.net>
References:  <43A136C7.9040302@plab.ku.dk> <20060213022747.6878E45041@ptavv.es.net>

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On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 06:27:47PM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote:

> Well, I have tracked the problem down a bit. It happens when the system
> runs out of memory and starts to use the swap file. The glimpse indexing
> operation is very memory intensive and under V6 it simply crawls when it
> starts paging. On my old 256 MB system, this operation was taking over 6
> hours. On my new system (1 GB), it takes about 7 minutes.=20

Can you try increasing the vm.swap_async_max sysctl to 32 and see if
that helps with the speed of paging?

Kris

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