On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 08:59:19PM +0200, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 04:49:36PM +0100, Aidan Kehoe wrote:
> >>
> >># Taken from Christan Biere's message 20031216002708.GA358@cyclonus
> >>vm.anonmin=50
> >>vm.anonmax=90
> >>vm.execmin=5
> >>vm.execmax=90
> >>vm.filemin=5
> >>vm.filemax=10
> >>
> >>I _think_ I was seeing the issues you are describing, and that these 
> >>settings
> >>resolved it, but I honestly don't remember any more. Anyway, vm.filemax 
> >>does
> >>what you ask there, if I'm reading sysctl(3) correctly.
> >
> >You also need to bump execmax and anonmax, otherwise some memory may still
> >be allocated to the data cache while the system is paging.
> 
> Manuel, execmax and anonmax is in that list you quoted. :-)

Yes but he said "vm.filemax does what you ask there". changing vm.filemax only
isn't enouth.

> 
> Anyhow, I've twisted all the vm.*min and vm.*max, and actually did get the 
> response back into the system. But which parameter did it, or if it was a 
> combination of them, I don't know.

Probably a combination of them.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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