2025-02-20 15:19 (UTC+0100), Lucas: > As for the issue, at 550 GB so 252'757'352 MBUFs (using default mbuf buf > size), it works now, with ring allocation. However, the physical memory > usage now goes up a lot and I end up swapping. It appears that not all > memory is in hugepages (not all pages are filled) and that perhaps the > kernel also allocates more memory. I have 755 GiB RAM available, so 600 GB > of mempool is pushing it.
How is your system configured to reserve hugepages? DPDK always allocates hugepages; if none are available, allocation fails. Hugepages never swap AFAIK.
