Re: Large pagesize and datafile sticky bit

[[ PLEASE DON'T SEND ME EMAIL COPIES OF POSTINGS ]] yong321_at_yahoo.com (Yong Huang) writes:

>Thanks for your answer and Casper Dik's. How do I know my system is
>actually using a non-base page size such as 4mb? I ran netstat -k on
>our database server (Solaris 2.6). Under bp_map_backend header,
>page_size is 16384, and there're multiple alloc_[size]'s and
>inuse_[size]'s, from 16k up to 2M. I believe these [size]'s are size
>of slab objects. Can I say our system has at most 2M page size? Also,
>under kmem_default_backend, page_size is 8192.

No. I don't think the hardware even supports 2M page sizes.

ISM shared memory is the only user interface to 4MB pages at this time.

Casper

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