On 25.03.2014 [11:17:57 -0500], Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Mon, 24 Mar 2014, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > > > Anyone have any ideas here? > > Dont do that? Check on boot to not allow exhausting a node with huge > pages? Gigantic hugepages are allocated by the hypervisor (not the Linux VM), and we don't control where the allocation occurs. Yes, ideally, they would be interleaved to avoid this situation, but I can also see reasons for having them all be from one node so that tasks can be affinitized and get the guarantee of the 16GB pagesize benefit. Thanks, Nish -- 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>