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Description of problem: numstat -m show twice the amount of HugePages then there actually are: # cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.8 (Santiago) # uname -a Linux <server> 2.6.32-642.11.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Oct 26 10:25:23 EDT 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux # numastat -V numastat version: 20130723: May 22 2014 # sysctl vm.nr_hugepages vm.nr_hugepages = 90000 # grep Huge /sys/devices/system/node/node{0,1}/meminfo /sys/devices/system/node/node0/meminfo:Node 0 HugePages_Total: 45000 /sys/devices/system/node/node0/meminfo:Node 0 HugePages_Free: 24942 /sys/devices/system/node/node0/meminfo:Node 0 HugePages_Surp: 0 /sys/devices/system/node/node1/meminfo:Node 1 HugePages_Total: 45000 /sys/devices/system/node/node1/meminfo:Node 1 HugePages_Free: 3754 /sys/devices/system/node/node1/meminfo:Node 1 HugePages_Surp: 0 # numastat -m | grep Huge HugePages_Total 90000.00 90000.00 180000.00 # <-- HugePages_Free 49884.00 7508.00 57392.00 # <-- HugePages_Surp 0.00 0.00 0.00 So I have 90000 of HP configured, 45000 for each node, whilst numastat shows 90000 per node or 180000 total Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): numastat version: 20130723: May 22 2014 How reproducible: 100% Actual results: numastat shows double the amount of total huge pages Expected results: the same total amount of Huge Pages in numastat -m and /proc/meminfo
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