Howdy Russ, On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 11:08:31PM -0500, Russ Anderson wrote: > > Yes, it fixes the inconsistency in reporting totalram_pages. Thanks alot for the feedback. > There seems to be another issue. 1G hugepages can be allocated at boot time, but > cannot be allocated at run time. "default_hugepagesz=1G hugepagesz=1G hugepages=1" on > the boot line works. With "default_hugepagesz=1G hugepagesz=1G" the command > "echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages" fails. > > uv4-sys:~ # echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages > -bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument That's not an issue, actually. It seems to be , unfortunately, an implementation characteristic, due to an imposed arch constraint. Further reference: http://lwn.net/Articles/273661/ Cheers! -- Rafael Aquini <aquini@xxxxxxxxx> -- 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>