Excerpts from Greg Stark's message of mié oct 20 16:28:25 -0300 2010:
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> wrote:
> > I don't think it's a big cost once all the processes
> > have been forked if you're reusing them beyond perhaps slightly more
> > efficient cache usage.
>
> Hm, this site claims to get a 13% win just from the reduced tlb misses
> using a preload hack with Pg 8.2. That would be pretty substantial.
>
> http://oss.linbit.com/hugetlb/
Wow, is there no other way to get the huge page size other than opening
and reading /proc/meminfo?
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