RE: Hugepages question with multiple instances on 1 host
Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 22:51:35 +0000
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I have been working with Oracle and Solaris for a long time and no one from Oracle has ever advised us not to use ISM. It does not have anything to do with Oracle buying Sun either, which happened in 2009. You might be confusing DISM (Dynamic Intimate Shared Memory) with ISM. From: Andrew Kerber [mailto:andrew.kerber_at_gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 2:57 PM
To: Hameed, Amir
Cc: dbvision_at_iinet.net.au; oracle-l_at_freelists.org Subject: Re: Hugepages question with multiple instances on 1 host
Up until Oracle bought Sun, the advice from Oracle was do not use ISM. But I think some of that was because no one really understood ISM. I looked around quite a bit, and never could find a good explanation of ISM and DISM terms and usage. If such a thing exists now, I would really appreciate it if someone could point me to it. I dont use much Sun currently, but I wouldn't mind keeping up with what is going on with it.
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Hameed, Amir <Amir.Hameed_at_xerox.com<mailto:Amir.Hameed_at_xerox.com>> wrote: ISM with large 4M pages in Solaris has been available since Solaris 6. In Richard McDougal's book, "Solaris Internals Core Kernel Architecture", which was published in 2001, there is a TPC-C reference for Oracle with 12% performance improvement with 4M pages.
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Subject: Re: Hugepages question with multiple instances on 1 host
Then why is it that >7 years ago I mentioned it here and was told it was
not recommended to be used with Oracle? It could well be because Oracle
hadn't yet bought Sun...
I also recall using a E10K in a project between 19999 and 2001 when we
were told point blank by both Sun and Oracle that it was not available.
Then again that was Oracle 8i, so maybe that was the reason?
-- Cheers Nuno Souto dbvision_at_iinet.net.au<mailto:dbvision_at_iinet.net.au> On 1/05/2013 10:29 PM, Hameed, Amir wrote:Received on Thu May 02 2013 - 00:51:35 CEST
> This feature has been around in Solaris for a long time, over a decade.
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