Since you seem to be using transparent hugepages and not libhugetlbfs (LD_PRELOAD=libhugetlbfs.so), I'm going to reassign this bug to the Linux kernel package.
(It's also entirely possible this bug got solved in the last 3 years, to be fair) ** Package changed: libhugetlbfs (Ubuntu) => linux (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1013807 Title: transparent hugepages and thrashing on amd64 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1013807/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs