Christo Kutrovsky wrote,on my timestamp of 8/10/2008 4:25 AM:
I have a presentation on Memory that demonstrates some of the benefits from HugePages. You can watch the presentation here: http://www.pythian.com/blogs/741/pythian-goodies-free-memory-swap-oracle-and-everything
Excellent stuff, Christo. Thanks for that. In particular, the highlighting that the TLB is not a feature of the OS but a feature of the CPU itself: it's been a sine-qua-non of virtual memory since the days of the IBM 370 series. -- Cheers Nuno Souto in sunny Sydney, Australia dbvision@xxxxxxxxxxxx -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l