> > Memory: 15G Act, 113M Inact, 15M Wired, 29M Exec, 15G File, 112K Free > > Swap: 8192M Total, 8192M Free > > the file cache shouldn't be allowed to use that much memory.
why do you say that? vm.filemax is not really a maximum, it can use all free memory if there isn't memory pressure. however, the values of vm.* might be useful here.
