Subject: sysctl.vm.* question
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: sigsegv <sigsegv@rambler.ru>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 04/11/2005 11:01:52
Greetings, say I have the following settings

vm.anonmin=80
vm.anonmax=95
vm.execmin=10
vm.execmax=60

and I have 256MB of RAM. vm.anonmin reserves 80 percent of memory for anonymous application data, i.e. (256/100)*80 = 204MB, so how come running 'top' shows 78MB Exec? Does vm.execmax reclaim memory for its use from the reserves allocated to vm.anonmin?