On Thu, 20 Jun 2013, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > I'm suspecting that you're referring to enlarged rss because of > > khugepaged's max_ptes_none and because you're abusing the purpose of > > cpusets for containerization. > > Why is containerization an abuse? What's wrong with renting out chunks > of a big box farm on the fly like a task motel? If a realtime customer > checks in, he's not gonna be thrilled about sharing a room. > We "abused" cpusets for containerization for years, I'm not implying any negative connotation to it, see the Documentation/x86/x86_64/fake-numa-for-cpusets document that I wrote. It doesn't suggest that we should be controlling thp through cpusets; if he's complaining about static binaries where he can't use a malloc hook then why not make it per-process so users don't have to configure cpusets to control it? -- 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>