Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de> writes:

> but why that makes the system think that not enough exec pages are
> present is beyond me:

Since you don't need so much exec pages mapped?  Try to run pmap(1) on
each process running and count how many pages are mapped exec (make
sure to exclude shared mapping) and compare with vmstat -s output.
Are the numbers so different?

enami.