Bug 97233
Summary: | malloc hangs using bigpages | ||
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Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 | Reporter: | rob lojek <rob> |
Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Larry Woodman <lwoodman> |
Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 2.1 | CC: | rob |
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Hardware: | i386 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
URL: | http://www.redhat.com/whitepapers/rhel/OracleLinuxInstallTips.pdf | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2003-07-15 21:36:07 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
rob lojek
2003-06-11 18:15:29 UTC
memory you set aside for bigpages is not available for normal use; so you removed more than half of your ram -> result, your code uses more ram than you have (left) -> swapping etc there's absolutely no swapping going on--I'll post a 'free' in a minute. There's also nothing at all running on the machine. Obviously, you should be able to allocate 2 gB of RAM on a machine that has 4 gB of RAM installed--I the OS is using 2 gB of RAM! Here's a quote from this document on RH's site: http://www.redhat.com/whitepapers/rhel/OracleLinuxInstallTips.pdf "For a SGA of 4GB, bigpages of size 4100MB could be set and for SGA of 2GB, bigpages of size 2100MB could be set." We'd simply like to be able to follow this documentation, and have malloc() not hang during a trivial memory allocation. We're having a tough time running oracle using 'bigpages', per that document. sorry, that should read "the OS _isn't_ using 2 gB of RAM" Sorry, misread your original reply. Yes, there's indeed swapping going on, which explains the delay at ~1.4 gB. |