[dpdk-dev] very high VIRT memory usage

[Francesco]

Hi Anatoly

Il giorno mer 10 giu 2020 alle ore 11:24 Burakov, Anatoly <
anatoly.burakov at intel.com> ha scritto:

> On 09-Jun-20 8:40 PM, Francesco wrote:
> > Hi Anatoly,
> >
> > Thanks a lot for the detailed response!
> > Good to know anyway there's a "fix" already done in 20.05... also
> > because I'm not interested in supporting secondary processes or having
> > shared memory...
> >
> > Looking forward for the backports in stable branches then!
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Francesco
> >
>
> Hi Francesco,
>
> Just to be clear - the "fix" i'm talking about is not about using less
> memory - it's about not including this memory in core dumps. The memory
> amounts used will stay the same (i.e. you'll still see the ~256GB used
> each time you run DPDK).


Ouch ok I see.
My issue is that I have tools that look at the health of my server and will
report this high VIRT memory usage as anomalous - I guess I will have to
work around them some way.

Thanks for the clarification

Francesco