Hello, I was interested to read the following release notes:

Various optimizations for the machine-independent virtual memory system:
- Switched to a faster radix tree algorithm for memory page lookups.
- Improved tracking of clean/dirty pages, speeding up fsync(2) on large
  files by orders of magnitude.
- Improved parallelization: rewritten page allocator with awareness of
  CPU topology, replaced global counters with per-CPU counters, and
  reduced lock contention.

I ran a quick performance test on the scalability of NetBSD-10.0 with
regard to handling page faults on x86-64 for up to 8 concurrent
threads. To be honest, I'm not noticing any improvements compared to
NetBSD-9.3. Compared to Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris, NetBSD is way at
the bottom in terms of paging performance.

Is there a specific sysctl that needs to be enabled or the "improved
parallelization" above is referring to some other aspect of page
handling?

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Thanks.

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