On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 04:40:48AM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
> 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.
Well, another good candidate is acrobat4. Acrobat3 is OK, acrobat 4 seems
to dwarf Netscrape in memory footprint.
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