System boot hangs when using vm.hugetlb_pool 2005-10-05 - By Hoover Mark A AISC CONT
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> On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 11:35 -0400, Hoover Mark A AISC CONT wrote:
> > I've got a SUN SunFire V40z with 24GB of RAM. I'm trying to set
> > vm.hugetlb_pool to 16GB for use with an Oracle SGA.
> However, when I set
> > vm.hugetlb_pool larger than 6GB, the system hangs at
> "Configuring kernel
> > parameters".
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> > However, if I set it to 16GB (16384) and then run "sysctl
> -p" it works fine.
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> Doesn't TLB need to be a factor of 2? I.e. 1GB, 2GB, 4GB, 8GB, 16GB
> (not 6GB).
We've tried 8GB and 16GB and nothing 7GB and over seems to work...:(
I started at 4GB and worked my way up.
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