On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 10:36:40AM -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> Bear in mind that large pages are neither swap backed or file backed
> (vetoed by Linus), for starters. There are other large app problem scenarios
> apart from Oracle ;-)
I think the fact that large page support doesn't support mmap for users
that need it is utterly appauling; there are numerous places where it is
needed. The requirement for root-only access makes it useless for most
people, especially in HPC environments where it is most needed as such
machines are usually shared and accounts are non-priveledged.
-ben
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