In message <79273814-8FD0-11D7-8BB9-000502638BD0@ozemail.com.au>, Paul Ripke wr
ites:
>Just a hunch, but you may be running into a variant of kern/20191. I'm
>sure RAIDframe isn't the only disk device driver that expects to be able
>to allocate lumps of memory to service write I/O requests (esp 
>pageouts).

This is actually fairly plausible.  I've also noticed that it only happens
to me under heavy *NFS* load.  Hmm.  It does have a memory-leakish feel
to it, though.

-s