Thursday, 14 April 2011

HUGE PAGES

HUGE PAGES

These can be created by editing sysctl.conf and adding

vm.nr_hugepages=INTEGER

You can also use the following kernel parameter

hugepages=INTEGER

You can check the settings using the following

#cat /proc/meminfo | grep -i huge
HugePages_Total:    20
HugePages_Free:     20
HugePages_Rsvd:      0
Hugepagesize:     4096 kB

If the application uses mmap to request pages then they must be mounted as a filesystem
#mkdir /hugepages
#mount -t hugetlbfs none /hugepages

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