I can't give you an absolutely authoritative answer, but because of the way hugepages are implemented and allocated, I
can'tthink how they could be used for other processes. Linux hugepages are either 2m or 1g, far too large for any
likelyprocesses to require. They cannot be allocated in partial pages.
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> On Jun 11, 2017, at 10:02 AM, pinker <pinker@onet.eu> wrote:
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> We are experiencing some performance issues because of high CPU load. So I
> would like to ask one more time. The exact question is:
> Does PostgreSQL can use huge pages for processes or only for shared buffers?
> (Does it make any sense to set the number of huge pages above the
> shared_buffers?)
> Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated!
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