>> I forgot to address the second part of this question: How would I best >> inspect whether the kernel is doing that? > > You can, for example, record > > Âcat /proc/meminfo | grep Huge > > for large page allocations. Those show zero a per my other post. However I got the impression Dave was asking about regular but larger-than-one-page allocations internal to the kernel, while the Huge* lines in /proc/meminfo refers to allocations specifically done by userland applications doing huge page allocation on a system with huge pages enabled - or am I confused? > The "pagesperslab" column of /proc/slabinfo tells you how many pages > slab allocates from the page allocator. Seems to be what vmstat -m reports. -- / Peter Schuller aka scode -- 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/ . Fight unfair telecom policy in Canada: sign http://dissolvethecrtc.ca/ Don't email: <a href