Re: [PATCH] vmtime and vm balancing

Hi, I installed this patch onto one of my pop3/imap servers in my farm, and it crashed pretty hard today. I didn't get any crash data though, another admin rebooted it. This was after approx. 24 hours uptime. My service log shows load went absolutely through the roof, as high as 214, but memory n

[PATCH] vmtime and vm balancing

Hi, The following patch introduces the idea of vmtime. vmtime is time as the vm percieves it. Its advanced by memory pressure, which in the end, works out to be the page allocation & reclaim rate. With this figure I attempt to solve two problems. First I slow down the background page scann