<div dir="auto"><div>Hi Ed, </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">DPDK indeed reserves a large amount of virtual address space at startup. This does not prevent DPDK from running on low-memory systems, since this reservation does not consume physical memory. So the large figure in VIRT is not an issue. Hugepages are mapped on demand. Each mapped hugepage consunes a file descriptor. If you use 2MB hugepages, the number of open files can exhaust the limit easily. If you don't want to increase it, please see: <a href="https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/prog_guide/env_abstraction_layer.html#segment-file-descriptors">https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/prog_guide/env_abstraction_layer.html#segment-file-descriptors</a><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="m_-5745095176958870449WordSection1">
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