On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 10:53:45AM +1100, matthew green wrote:

> the "min" values stop pageout from happening, but if there is free
> ram available any type of ram can use it up to it's "max", i believe.

That's how I understood it too. 

Max stops new pages getting allocated. Min stops more pages getting
stolen, but if nobody wants pages of that type the memory can be
used for other things.

Perhaps that points to the problem - setting max too low results
in pages going unused because noone wants them for the other types.

--
Dan.