On Tue, 25 Mar 2014, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > 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), Ok so the kernel starts booting up and then suddenly the hypervisor takes the 2 16G pages before even the slab allocator is working? Not sure if I understand that correctly. -- 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>