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Message-ID: <1326278196.2767.7.camel@edumazet-HP-Compaq-6005-Pro-SFF-PC>
Date:	Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:36:36 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	"Borzenkov, Andrey" <andrey.borzenkov@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Extermeley large PageTables over 500G on kernel 2.6.32.49
 (SLES11 SP1)

Le mercredi 11 janvier 2012 à 11:18 +0100, Borzenkov, Andrey a écrit :

> 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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