Chuck Silvers wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 09:10:46AM -0800, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
> > Not only that, but if that Netscape is *really* idle, then its
> > pages won't be referenced, and thus would be a good canidate for
> > freeing, which will happen.
>
> under the scenario being discussed, pages from the idle netscape would
> only be freed to make room for other anonymous pages, not for vnode pages.
> certainly we must always reserve *some* memory for anonymous pages,
> but not 2/3 of RAM.

I think these limits should be adjustable.  If I want to reserve 2/3 (or some other
figure) of the RAM for anon pages I think I should be able to.

    -- Lennart