Memory

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Python, Linkers and Virtual Memory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twQKAoq2OPE

Reporting on "actual" memory usage of your application with smem http://linuxaria.com/pills/linux-terminal-check-who-uses-all-your-memory-with-smem

Transparent Hugepages

https://access.redhat.com/solutions/46111 for Fedora and RHEL Note: their commands at the end of the article for determining if HugePages are disabled do not work in my limited tests. I have both Ubuntu and CentOS systems which are using HugePages, yet grep -i HugePages_Total /proc/meminfo cat /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages and sysctl vm.nr_hugepages all report zero. Meanwhile grep AnonHugePages /proc/meminfo and grep -e AnonHugePages /proc/*/smaps | awk '{ if($2>4) print $0} ' | awk -F "/" '{print $0; system("ps -fp " $3)} ' report actual usage. The biggest applications? mysqld, java, python, node, polkitd, mongod, httpd

Strangely, the value for cat /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled

[always] madvise never

Note that in order to enable or disable THP permanently (so that it survives reboots), you need to do more than just echo a value to /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled. And there are subtle differences between distros. ^[1]

↑ https://askubuntu.com/questions/597372/how-do-i-modify-sys-kernel-mm-transparent-hugepage-enabled

[1] ttps://askubuntu.com/questions/597372/how-do-i-modify-sys-kernel-mm-transparent-hugepage-enabled

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