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When it wasn't (which could happen on a 4Mb machine with 32kb pages), uvm_pagealloc_strat could refuse to allocate user memory, while the pagedaemon didn't think it was worth freeing any more, resulting in the system seizing up.
When it wasn't (which could happen on a 4Mb machine with 32kb pages), uvm_pagealloc_strat could refuse to allocate user memory, while the pagedaemon didn't think it was worth freeing any more, resulting in the system seizing up.