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SubjectRe: [Lse-tech] Re: 10.31 second kernel compile
On Sat, 16 Mar 2002, Richard Gooch wrote:

> And I can afford a few MiB of RAM for PTE's and such for *the one
> process which is mapping my huge data files*!

Once you have this, you might as well make that granularity
per VMA.

This gives you the advantage of being able to share the
mapping for libc.so ;)

From what I can see, you'll basically want large pages
for:

1) Oracle and maybe other large shared memory situations
where the page table overhead would otherwise be
prohibitively high

2) scientific calculations and other programs with a huge
dataset where TLB misses would be prohibitively slow

regards,

Rik
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