Re: mmap with huge page

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Wed Jul 18 2018 - 06:37:15 EST


On Wed 18-07-18 00:01:10, David Frank wrote:
> Thanks Mike.  I read the doc, which is not explicit on the non used file taking up huge page count 

What do you consider non user file? The file contains a data somebody
might want to read later. You cannot simply remove it. This is not
different to any other in memory filesystem (e.g. tmpfs, ramfs)
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs