David Gilbert wrote:
>
> I'm positive that its not a case of the working set being larger than
> physical memory; it's one of choice of page to swap.
You are positively wrong, then. :-) Active pages are _always_ last
resort with the algorithm FreeBSD uses.
You mention Netscape is the only active application on another mail...
Well, there is X too, isn't there?
> Has anyone done any thinking about this behaviour? It occurs with
> varying degree to many applications.
I have only seen something like this with Netscape. I could probably
trace it to Netscape running Java or Javascript, but I have never tried.
Alas, in my case this is MUCH worse, as the APA-1460 where Netscape (and
a lot of other applications) is consumes freaking amounts of CPU, which
results in trashing.
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