[TriLUG] 536 GB of allocated virtual memory

[jason at monsterjam.org]

hahahaha! 
http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/5/7/93  maybe.. *shrug*

Jason


On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 02:14:50PM -0400, Jason Tower wrote:
> we have a client who insists that their T-1 connection delivers 1.5 Gb/s 
> and not 1.5 Mb/s.  they'd probably like to purchase one of these servers so 
> they can utilize all of their bandwidth, can you send me the exact model 
> number? thanks,
> 
> jason
> 
> Mike Seda wrote:
> >Hi All,
> >We have a Dell PowerEdge system with dual AMD Opterons and 8 GB RAM, 
> >which is running RHEL 4 WS. The problem is that the system thinks that 
> >there is 536 GB of allocated virtual memory. Kernel 2.6.9-42.ELsmp 
> >(64-bit version) is currently installed. The same behavior was observed 
> >when running kernel 2.6.9-5.ELsmp (64-bit version). Can someone provide 
> >an explanation for this phenomenon? Output from `cat /proc/meminfo` is 
> >provided below:
> >MemTotal:      8045168 kB
> >MemFree:       6155328 kB
> >Buffers:          1232 kB
> >Cached:          19816 kB
> >SwapCached:     413472 kB
> >Active:         726700 kB
> >Inactive:      1113940 kB
> >HighTotal:           0 kB
> >HighFree:            0 kB
> >LowTotal:      8045168 kB
> >LowFree:       6155328 kB
> >SwapTotal:     2031608 kB
> >SwapFree:      1453720 kB
> >Dirty:              24 kB
> >Writeback:           0 kB
> >Mapped:        1417236 kB
> >Slab:            20108 kB
> >CommitLimit:   6054192 kB
> >Committed_AS:  1818920 kB
> >PageTables:       8420 kB
> >VmallocTotal: 536870911 kB
> >VmallocUsed:      2004 kB
> >VmallocChunk: 536868779 kB
> >HugePages_Total:     0
> >HugePages_Free:      0
> >Hugepagesize:     2048 kB
> >
> >Thx,
> >Mike
> >
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