Re: Hugepages - benefits / drawbacks

  • From: Nuno Souto <dbvision@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:40:33 +1000

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.

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