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From: David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG>
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On Fri, Mar 04, 2005, Julian Elischer wrote:
> 
> 
> David Schultz wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, Mar 04, 2005, Julian Elischer wrote:
> > 
> >
> >>for a start I'd like to add a sysctl to turn off swapping out kernel 
> >>stacks..
> >>then if someone had a reproducible or atleast 'common" problem,
> >>we could suggest turning it off to see
> >>if it fixes the problem.. that would be a big smoking gun..
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >You mean like vm.swap_enabled?  ;-)
> > 
> >
> well. that controls more  than the swapping of the stacks.

Not really.  The only other thing it does is deactivate user pages
for processes that have exceeded their rlimits or already been
swapped out.  Perhaps that's what you were thinking of...