Re: Estimating HugePages Requirements?

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
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Subject: Re: Estimating HugePages Requirements?
Date: 2021-09-23 16:57:41
Message-ID: CA+TgmoZYSFc6O_BuY0FkLROVEq7CdjSq2cevsA=ucqThtta27w@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 11:53 PM Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> wrote:
> I am not sure either as that's a tradeoff between an underestimation
> and no information. The argument of consistency indeed matters.
> Let's see if others have any opinion to share on this point.

Well, if we think the information won't be safe to use, it's better to
report nothing than a wrong value, I think.

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Robert Haas
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