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SubjectRe: Any way to access huge pages ?
well thats where you have hugetlbfs
and you mmap a file in /dev/hugetlbfs or whever it goes
works fine

or shmfs but the its not large pages I guess, unless you have the
bigpages feature in the vendor versions. like bigpages in rhas21 can be
for shmfs.

On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 09:21:28PM -0800, Peter Zaitsev wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm wondering is there any way to access "large pages" (4MB) memory
> other than using shared memory ? For example can you do anonymous mmap
> to get access to large pages.
>
> I would like to utilize large pages for MySQL buffer pool and other
> large caches, but would not like to use Shared memory for this purpose
> as it will complicate things for users.
>
>
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