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IA-32: large memory pages<br />

(bigpages/hugetlb)<br />

• If the kernel is booted with “bigpages =4000MB”<br />

[oracle]$ cat /proc/meminfo<br />

total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:<br />

Mem: 16553721856 4332068864 12221652992 196608 13639680 33484800<br />

Swap: 2093129728 0 2093129728<br />

MemTotal:<br />

MemFree:<br />

MemShared:<br />

Buffers:<br />

Cached:<br />

SwapCached:<br />

Active:<br />

Inact_dirty:<br />

Inact_clean:<br />

Inact_target:<br />

HighTotal:<br />

HighFree:<br />

LowTotal:<br />

LowFree:<br />

SwapTotal:<br />

16165744 kB<br />

11935208 kB<br />

192 kB<br />

13320 kB<br />

32700 kB<br />

0 kB<br />

42364 kB<br />

3848 kB<br />

0 kB<br />

4177920 kB<br />

15532016 kB<br />

11375900 kB<br />

633728 kB<br />

559308 kB<br />

2044072 kB<br />

SwapFree: 2044072 kB<br />

BigPagesFree: 4096000 kB<br />

The 4000MB of memory are subtracted from the free system<br />

memory…<br />

… <strong>and</strong> put into a separate allocati<strong>on</strong> area just<br />

for bigpages.<br />

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