Add note about huge pages using up memory. (#2733)

* Add note about huge pages using up memory.

* Update doc

* Update
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Robert Nishihara
2018-08-24 17:02:54 -07:00
committed by Philipp Moritz
parent 697bfb14db
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@@ -19,8 +19,14 @@ huge pages as follows.
uid=`id -u`
sudo mount -t hugetlbfs -o uid=$uid -o gid=$gid none /mnt/hugepages
sudo bash -c "echo $gid > /proc/sys/vm/hugetlb_shm_group"
# This typically corresponds to 20000 2MB pages (about 40GB), but this
# depends on the platform.
sudo bash -c "echo 20000 > /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages"
**Note:** Once you create the huge pages, they will take up memory which will
never be freed unless you remove the huge pages. If you run into memory issues,
that may be the issue.
You need root access to create the file system, but not for running the object
store.