Re: Estimating HugePages Requirements?

On 9/10/21, 1:02 PM, "Robert Haas"  wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 9, 2021 at 5:53 PM Bossart, Nathan  wrote:
>> I think it might be clearer to
>> somehow indicate that the value is essentially the size of the main
>> shared memory area in terms of the huge page size, but I'm not sure
>> how to do that concisely.  Perhaps it is enough to just make sure the
>> description of "huge_pages_required" is detailed enough.
>
> shared_memory_size_in_huge_pages? It's kinda long, but a long name
> that you can understand without reading the docs is better than a
> short one where you can't.

I think that's an improvement.  The only other idea I have at the
moment is num_huge_pages_required_for_shared_memory.

Nathan