2005-Oct-28

Based on email on netbsd-users I am trying the following:

sudo sysctl -w vm.anonmax=70
sudo sysctl -w vm.execmax=40
sudo sysctl -w vm.execmin=20
sudo sysctl -w vm.filemax=40

The email said: "... vm.execmin is the most critical ... The default should be nowhere below 20, and currently it's only one fourth of that."

Later, I have my X11 terminals and X pointer freeze for a few seconds. This has happened several times.

Then I tried what I saw in another (March tech-kern) posting:

sudo sysctl -w vm.anonmax=80
sudo sysctl -w vm.execmin=0
sudo sysctl -w vm.execmax=2
sudo sysctl -w vm.filemin=0
sudo sysctl -w vm.filemax=1