> > kern.ipc.shm_use_phys) On this particular system, though, it's doing
> > nothing except PG. 384 MB of RAM, I can give PG 160 of it, which leaves me
> > with some 170 MB of idle RAM.
> No, that's not idle RAM; that's buffer cache. (FreeBSD, like most
> modern Unix operating systems, will use any spare physical memory
Oh, of course! How silly of me to forget that! You're entirely right.
> It's not a sysctl, because those limits are settable per-process.
> Use "ulimit -aS" to check the current (soft) limits, and "ulimit
> -aH" to check the hard limits (beyond which the soft limits may
> not be raised). Also see the getrlimit manpage.
I shall. Thanks a lot!