Re: heavy swapping, not sure why

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From: peixubin <peixubin(at)yahoo(dot)com(dot)cn>
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Subject: Re: heavy swapping, not sure why
Date: 2011-08-30 01:54:26
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You should monitor PageTables value in /proc/meminfo.if the value larger than 1G,I Suggest enable hugepages .

To monitor PageTables:
# cat /proc/meminfo |grep -i pagetables


From: Lonni J Friedman <netllama(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: peixubin <peixubin(at)yahoo(dot)com(dot)cn>
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Subject: Re: heavy swapping, not sure why
Date: 2011-08-30 15:09:11
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On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 6:54 PM, peixubin <peixubin(at)yahoo(dot)com(dot)cn> wrote:
> You should monitor PageTables value in /proc/meminfo.if the value larger than 1G,I  Suggest enable hugepages .
>
> To monitor PageTables:
>   # cat /proc/meminfo |grep -i pagetables

$ cat /proc/meminfo |grep -i pagetables
PageTables: 608732 kB

Looks to be less than 1GB currently.