Re: Hugepages - benefits / drawbacks
From: Nuno Souto <dbvision_at_iinet.net.au>
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:40:33 +1000
Message-ID: <48EC8E21.40002@iinet.net.au>
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:40:33 +1000
Message-ID: <48EC8E21.40002@iinet.net.au>
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_at_iinet.net.au -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-lReceived on Wed Oct 08 2008 - 05:40:33 CDT