Anticipating Your Memory Needs – Further learnings

The blog “Anticipating Your Memory Needs” discussed the memoptimizer daemon which monitors the rate of consumption and reclamation of memory pages of different orders on a system. Using this information, memoptimizer builds a mathematical model of memory usage trend on the system and uses this model to anticipate potential upcoming memory shortage. This allows it to take actions ahead of time to force reclamation/compaction of memory pages before memory shortage happens.