On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 22:22 +0200, Hans Rosenfeld wrote:
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> I expected that any hugepage that a process had mmapped would
> automatically be returned to the system when the process exits. That was
> not the case, the process exited and the hugepage was lost (unless I
> changed the program to explicitly munmap the hugepage before exiting).
> Removing the hugetlbfs file containing the hugepage also didn't free the
> page.

Could you post the code you're using to do this?  I have to wonder if
you're leaving a fd open somewhere.  Even if you rm the hugepage file,
it'll stay allocated if you have a fd open, or if *someone* is still
mapping it. 

Can you umount your hugetlbfs?

-- Dave

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