On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 6:14 PM Antoine Pitrou <[email protected]> wrote: > But it's not enabled by default... And there are reasons for that (see > the manpage I quoted).
Uh, then if people want to use huge page, they need to enable it on system wide, or add madvice in obmalloc.c. > > In web applications, it's common to one Python worker process > > use 50~100+ MiB RSS. 2MB arena seems reasonable for those > > applications. > > Perhaps, but what is the problem you are trying to solve? Do you have > evidence that memory management of those 50-100 MB is costly? > I just meant we may be able to utilize THP if we provide large arena option. In other words, *if* we provide configure option to increase arena & pool size, 2MB arena seems reasonable to me. That's all I wanted to say here. I didn't mean utilizing THP is the main motivation to increase arena size. People who want to use huge page may have a problem to solve by huge page. But I don't have it. Regards, -- Inada Naoki <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/S3GELVBIRQS5LOA72OIPPUNPNZGEUV2J/
