From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: Alex Richman <alex.r@gblabs.co.uk>
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mlock() confusing 1 half of system RAM limit
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2018 13:44:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180601114425.GA15686@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c43ad840-dcab-b86f-bf15-ffb26b66d37b@gblabs.co.uk>
On Fri 01-06-18 10:53:57, Alex Richman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm seeing a 1/2 of system RAM limit when calling mlock(). mlock(2) says:
> > ENOMEM (Linux 2.4 and earlier) the calling process tried to lock more than
> half of RAM.
> Which implies to me that the 1 half of system RAM limit should be only Linux
> 2.4 and earlier, but I'm running linux 4.4.127 and still seeing the limit.
>
> This is on a system with 66007168 KB total memory, locking 33794621440 bytes
> works, locking 33795653632 bytes does not work.
I assume you are doing mlock on MAP_SHARED resp. on mmap of shmem
file. You are likely to hit the shmem limit. This is half of the
available memory by default.
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-01 11:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-01 9:53 mlock() confusing 1 half of system RAM limit Alex Richman
2018-06-01 11:44 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2018-06-01 12:26 ` Alex Richman
2018-06-01 13:05 ` Michal Hocko
2018-06-01 13:24 ` Alex Richman
2018-06-01 13:41 ` Michal Hocko
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