Re: Report: Linux huge pages with Postgres - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Report: Linux huge pages with Postgres
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Msg-id 25486.1291044880@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Report: Linux huge pages with Postgres  (Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>)
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Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> writes:
> Just a quick note: I can't hazard a guess as to why you're not getting
> better results than you are, but I *can* say that putting together a
> production-quality patch may not be worth your effort regardless.  There
> is a nice "transparent hugepages" patch set out there which makes
> hugepages "just happen" when it seems to make sense and the system can
> support it.  It eliminates the need for all administrative fiddling and
> for any support at the application level.

That would be cool, because the current kernel feature is about as
unfriendly to use as it could possibly be ...
        regards, tom lane


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