[TriLUG] 536 GB of allocated virtual memory

[Greg Brown]

I need one of those T1s!

On 8/24/06, Jason Tower <jason at cerient.net> 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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