Re: Extermeley large PageTables over 500G on kernel 2.6.32.49 (SLES11SP1)

[Avi Kivity]

On 01/13/2012 07:20 AM, Borzenkov, Andrey wrote:
> > > 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.
> > 
>
> Does kernel ever free allocated page tables, or once allocated they stick for the process lifetime? 

munmap() will free them, but that doesn't apply here.  Linux doesn't
swap page tables.

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