On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 21:17:04 +0100 Petr Holasek <pholasek@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > When user insert negative value into /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages it will > result > in the setting a random number of HugePages in system Is this true? afacit the kernel will allocate as many pages as it can and will then set /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages to reflect the result. That's not random. -- 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 internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>