RHEL/CentOS 6,7 : How to caculate the size of hugepage used by a specific process/application

You have a system configured with hugepages and you want to find per-process hugepages utilization.

# grep -i huge /proc/meminfo
HugePages_Total:  2176
HugePages_Free:   2065
HugePages_Rsvd:   2065
Hugepagesize:     2048 kB

Method 1

The following command can be used to see which processes are using THP:

for i in /proc/*/smaps; do
    if [[ $(grep '^AnonHugePages' $i | grep -v '0 kB$') ]]; then
        echo -ne "$i procees maybe running THP mode if you are using THP mode in kernel:\n";
    fi;
done

Evaluating AnonHugePages here will show if Transparent Huge Pages (THP) are used.

Method 2 – hugepages used by a process

The following command can be used to caculate the size of hugepage used by a specified process, assumption that HugePage size is 2048 kB, the output unit is MiB:

# grep -B 11 'KernelPageSize:     2048 kB' /proc/[PID]/smaps | grep "^Size:" | awk 'BEGIN{sum=0}{sum+=$2}END{print sum/1024}'