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On Sun, 20 Apr 2003, Matthew Dillon wrote:

>     note (1): normally act_count protects against thrashing.  It is the
>     active queue's act_count algorithm which gives FreeBSD's such a nice
>     smooth degredation curve when memory loads become extreme by preventing
>     a frequently accessed page from being freed too early, so we don't
>     want to just turn it off.  Maybe we need a test for 'too many active
>     pages', aka when > 80% of available pages are in the active queue
>     to temporarily disable the act_count test.

I guess just raising the bar as to what a page needs, to be considdered
"active" would have that effect.