Re: [PATCH] Hugepages should be accounted as unevictable pages.

[Rik van Riel]

Alok Kataria wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 14:55 -0700, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > Alok Kataria wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 14:24 -0700, Rik van Riel wrote:

> > Things like page tables and dentry/inode caches vary
> > according to the use case and are allocated as needed.
> > They are in no way "static in nature".
>
> Maybe static was the wrong word to use here. 
> What i meant was that you could always calculate the *maximum* amount of
> memory that is going to be used by page table and can also determine the
> % of memory that will be used by slab caches.

My point is that you cannot do that.

We have seen systems with 30% of physical memory in
page tables, as well as systems with a similar amount
of memory in the slab cache.

Yes, these were running legitimate workloads.

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