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From: Noons <wizofoz2k@yahoo.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Large pages
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2012 22:32:17 +1100
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Mladen Gogala wrote,on my timestamp of 11/11/2012 6:01 PM:
> There is a feature on Windows 2008 (64bit) called "large page
> support", completely analogous to huge pages on Linux:
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa366720(v=vs.85).aspx
> http://www.stanford.edu/dept/itss/docs/oracle/10g/win.101/b10113/ap_64bit.htm#CHDGFJJD
>
> I've built such an instance only once, but I am no longer working for the
> company that I built it for. Does anybody else here use that? What are the
> experiences? This has been mentioned on a discussion forum.



Not on Windows, but in Aix and Linux, I would not use anything else.
Particularly with today's servers with very large memory sizes.