Hello Mel, You helped some time ago with contention in lock_pages on very large boxes. You worked with Jack Steiner on this. Currently I am tasked with improving this area even more. So I am fishing for any more ideas that would be productive or worth trying. I have some numbers from a 512 machine. Linux uvpsw1 3.0.51-0.7.9-default #1 SMP Thu Nov 29 22:12:17 UTC 2012 (f3be9d0) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux 0.166850 0.082339 0.248428 0.081197 0.127635 Linux uvpsw1 3.8.0-rc1-medusa_ntz_clean-dirty #32 SMP Tue Jan 8 16:01:04 CST 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux 0.151778 0.118343 0.135750 0.437019 0.120536 Nathan Zimmer -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>