On Apr 6, 2010, at 5:30 AM, Mel Gorman wrote: > > There is a good chance you could allocate a decent percentage of > memory as huge pages but as you are unlikely to have run hugeadm > --set-recommended-min_free_kbytes early in boot, it is also likely to trash > heavily and the success rates will not be very impressive. Can you explain how hugeadm --set-recommended-min_free_kbytes works and how it achieves this magic? Or can you send me a pointer to how this works? I've tried doing some Google searches, and I found the LWN article "Huge pages part 3: administration", but it doesn't go into a lot of detail how increasing vm.min_free_kbytes helps the anti fragmentation code. Thanks, -- Ted -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href