Re: Extermeley large PageTables over 500G on kernel 2.6.32.49(SLES11 SP1)

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Wed Jan 11 2012 - 05:36:38 EST


Le mercredi 11 janvier 2012 Ã 11:18 +0100, Borzenkov, Andrey a Ãcrit :

> What can be the reason for system consuming half of physical memory for page tables?
>

Why dont you use hugepages to map oracle SGA ?

If not, its normal to eat so much memory for page tables

grep VmPTE /proc/*/status



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