Re: High vm scan rate and dropped keystrokes thru X?

2021-07-27 Thread Paul Ripke
On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 06:28:39PM +1200, Lloyd Parkes wrote: > > > On 27/07/21 12:19 am, Paul Ripke wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 05:53:19PM +1200, Lloyd Parkes wrote: > > > That's 12GB of RAM in use and 86MB of RAM free. Sounds pretty awful to me. > > > > Sounds normal to me - I don't exp

Re: High vm scan rate and dropped keystrokes thru X?

2021-07-26 Thread Lloyd Parkes
On 27/07/21 12:19 am, Paul Ripke wrote: On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 05:53:19PM +1200, Lloyd Parkes wrote: That's 12GB of RAM in use and 86MB of RAM free. Sounds pretty awful to me. Sounds normal to me - I don't expect to see any free RAM unless I've just - exited a large process - deleted a lar

Re: High vm scan rate and dropped keystrokes thru X?

2021-07-26 Thread Paul Ripke
On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 11:56:13PM +0900, Izumi Tsutsui wrote: > > NetBSD 9.2, amd64, 16GiB RAM, quad core + hyperthreading. > > > > I've repeatedly noticed an issue where a large amount of disk reads can > > result in lost keystrokes, jerky mouse behaviour and other weirdness. > : > > "vmstat 1"

Re: High vm scan rate and dropped keystrokes thru X?

2021-07-26 Thread Izumi Tsutsui
> NetBSD 9.2, amd64, 16GiB RAM, quad core + hyperthreading. > > I've repeatedly noticed an issue where a large amount of disk reads can > result in lost keystrokes, jerky mouse behaviour and other weirdness. : > "vmstat 1" during these events shows climbing runqueue, falling free > memory, high r

Re: High vm scan rate and dropped keystrokes thru X?

2021-07-26 Thread Paul Ripke
On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 05:53:19PM +1200, Lloyd Parkes wrote: > It has been a very long time since I had to look at UVM stuff, but luckily > past me post to > https://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-repository/2010/02/01/msg000364.html. > Well done past me. > > Copying from that post, I was using > v

Re: High vm scan rate and dropped keystrokes thru X?

2021-07-25 Thread Lloyd Parkes
It has been a very long time since I had to look at UVM stuff, but luckily past me post to https://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-repository/2010/02/01/msg000364.html. Well done past me. Copying from that post, I was using vm.anonmin = 10 vm.filemin = 5 vm.execmin = 5 vm.anonmax = 90 vm.

High vm scan rate and dropped keystrokes thru X?

2021-07-24 Thread Paul Ripke
NetBSD 9.2, amd64, 16GiB RAM, quad core + hyperthreading. I've repeatedly noticed an issue where a large amount of disk reads can result in lost keystrokes, jerky mouse behaviour and other weirdness. On this occasion, I was trying to "zstd -vt" a 400GiB backup archive from an ffsv2 USB attached H