re: Machine livelock with latest (4.99.48) kernel on sparc64 -- mem leak?

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

   procs    memory      page                       disks   faults      cpu
   r b w    avm    fre  flt  re  pi   po   fr   sr m0 c0   in   sy  cs us sy id
   0 0 0  18800    264 6396 2067 2173 701 3327 18417 0  0 8465   85 13536 0 
   9 91
   0 0 0  18928    272 4386 1494 1490 431 2268 11808 0  0 5835   49 9153 0 
     9 91
   0 0 0  18768    352 3475 1081 1195 319 1789 8276  0  0 4664   50 7081 0 
     8 92
   0 0 0  18600    312 5580 1710 2177 658 2846 22349 0  0 7802   94 12409 0 
   8 92
   0 0 0  18720    240 4348 1410 1692 484 2249 14998 0  0 5995   95 9471 0 
     8 92
   0 0 0  18440    392 5522 1706 2164 660 2812 19205 0  0 7753   86 11928 0 
   10 90
   0 0 0  18608    320 6945 2180 2706 818 3560 25290 0  0 9940  103 15098 0 
   9 91
   0 0 0  18608    344 6709 1999 2567 838 3462 23361 0  0 9417  107 14569 0 
   9 91
   0 0 0  18648    288 3505 1202 1400 386 1781 12668 0  0 4868   42 7655 0 
     9 91


this machine is in paging hell.  that's looking like about 1000
pagein and pageout requests every second.

perhaps test/play with the vm.{exec,anon,file}{min,max} values
some?e  increase anonmin and execmin perhaps?  it is hard to
know what sort of pages are being reused so quickly..


.mrg.