System: P-75 PCI Triton, 515MB EIDE, 32MB, 3c509B, ET4000/W32P-d.
Environment: large TCP/IP network, home dir mounted via NFS, XFree 3.1.2b,
between 4-10 telnet sessions to various other systems.
The interactive response was not good, and progressively seemed to get
worse (the mouse cursor did not move smoothly, holding down a key did
not show a smooth repeat; instead characters were echoed in groups,
moving an opaque window was horrible).
I could not find anything that was consuming a lot of time, or processes
that were being forked, etc., so I'm at a loss what could have caused
this... If I was compiling at the same time (not over NFS, by the way),
it got *much* worse... almost as if the system was very busy with swapping.
However, I almost never swap, so that wasn't the problem.
The buffer cache for NFS did seem to improve NFS reads, for what it's
worth...
Paul Slootman
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