On Sun, 5 Dec 2021 at 05:42, Paul Ripke <s...@stix.id.au> wrote: > > For the archives, since I just got annoyed again by the behaviour (I'm > running netbsd-9), this was likely fixed in: > > PR kern/54209: NetBSD 8 large memory performance extremely low > PR kern/54210: NetBSD-8 processes presumably not exiting > PR kern/54727: writing a large file causes unreasonable system behaviour > > in -current, and will be in netbsd-10.
Just curious, but would you be willing to test boot a current kernel (with every other file unchanged) to see if it does resolve everything for you? If you can reproduce it currently in single user mode even better as it narrows the test even further :) David
