While running a process (pnmtopng) with a VSS of ~300-600MB, I've
noticed on initalisation it will temporarily grab as much in-core free
memory as it can (~100MB in a system with 128), but within a second this
settles down to 58M, 37M of Inactive memory appears 'from nowhere', and
much disk thrashing. Is there a way to tell the pagedaemon not to be so
eager and otherwise tune this behavior?

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Chris Baird,, <cjb@brushtail.apana.org.au>