In message <Pine.NEB.4.44.0212180823080.18560-100000@elation.immanent.net>, Fre
derick Bruckman writes:
>Have you tried boosting "execmin"? With the default of "5", switching
>virtual desktops causes all my background X programs to swap out, but
>"10", no problem. While compiling, there may be a visible redraw
>delay, but no swapping. I'm running X, NFS server, name server, time
>server, ipfilter, lpd, and a netatalk server.

It's set to 10.  I am not experiencing any swapping at all; this is just
sluggishness, and I've seen it with as much as 290MB of free memory.

-s