[Discuss] khugepaged + vmware = massive CPU load

[dbarrett at blazemonger.com (Daniel Barrett)]

On December 14, 2015, Matthew Gillen wrote:
>[Perhaps] certain applications try to be too cute with their memory
>management[...].  So loading that 1MB image, which should take 256
>4KB pages now takes 256 2MB pages, which comes out to ~536MB.  Which
>is probably more memory than you have spare on your system.
>Does that sound plausible (excusing any arithmetic errors)?

It sounds like a plausible hypothesis to me, but in my case, the
machine in question had 28 gigs of free RAM, so allocating 500MB or
even 5000MB shouldn't be a problem.

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