First off: uname -a Linux xguan-wsl 3.13.0-112-generic #159-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 3 15:26:07 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
As the ZGC (cr.openjdk.java.net/~pliden/zgc/) is opensourced, I was curious enough to build it and run it for the first time in my life. Yet before I can make it work, I need to config the page pool to have the required number pages (say, 9216 pages), then the weird thing happens: It seems that the nr_hugepages is incremented little by little whenever I touch it: The first time I run this command: echo 9216 > /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-2048kB/nr_hugepages; cat /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-2048kB/nr_hugepages I got a 20 back. Then second time I run this: 32 But when I run cat /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-2048kB/nr_hugepages alone, that number will be stuck to 32 (as a cross-checking, "cat /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages" gives out the same number too). I understand the kernel is trying hard to accommodate to the big page number that I wanted, and I may not get the desired huge page number I want immediately, but this behavior seems to be weird in that you have to write to it in order for the kernel to do some work. Just want to check if anybody else is observing the same thing? Thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mechanical-sympathy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
