From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: "Borzenkov, Andrey" <andrey.borzenkov@ts.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Extermeley large PageTables over 500G on kernel 2.6.32.49 (SLES11 SP1)
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:26:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F0D71F0.4030203@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CB1B361E45A85849902B25342E88900501CFDC311187@ABGEX70E.FSC.NET>
On 01/11/2012 12:52 PM, Borzenkov, Andrey wrote:
> > If not, its normal to eat so much memory for page tables
> >
> > grep VmPTE /proc/*/status
> >
> >
>
> Forgive my ignorance. I thought that
>
> 1. PTE is 8 bytes per page, which is 4K which gives 2K per 1M of memory
> 2. All processes sharing the same shared memory share the same page table
>
> So page table for Oracle SGA 500G would be around 1G and shared by all Oracle clients. Is my assumption incorrect?
>
The second assumption is incorrect. So fully populated the 2000
processes would consume 2T; they just haven't accessed all the SGA yet.
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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-11 11:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-11 10:18 Extermeley large PageTables over 500G on kernel 2.6.32.49 (SLES11 SP1) Borzenkov, Andrey
2012-01-11 10:36 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-01-11 10:52 ` Borzenkov, Andrey
2012-01-11 11:19 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-01-11 11:23 ` Borzenkov, Andrey
2012-01-11 11:26 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2012-01-13 5:20 ` Borzenkov, Andrey
2012-01-16 15:43 ` Avi Kivity
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