On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 06:21:06AM +0900, SODA Noriyuki wrote:
>
> I guess this is because the active page queue is reordered by
> uvm_pageactivate() which is called from uvmpd_scan_inactive().
> So, the page deamon considers that the file pages are more active
> than anoymous and executable pages. And as far as the memory shortage
> condition continues, the page deamon abandons anonymous and executable
> pages.

Oh, nice catch.  This is bad!

I can't imagine that throwing away the pages' history like this is
the intent -- is it (obviously, you can't answer this, but maybe one
of the Chucks will)?

Thor