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Re:The final step for huge-page swapping by saas_co_de on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @06:23AM (#17456325)
All sorts of cloud hosting things would benefit from this. The ability to swap in and out very fast allows you to run more containers or vms on the same machine in cases where only a percentage of those instances are utilized at any given time but even if one is swapped out it must be able to swap in and respond with reasonable latency.

Any kind of "serverless" hosting or any architecture where you have a container per user would benefit from this kind of development.

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Re:The final step for huge-page swapping by Baech8ei on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @10:13AM (#17457356)
If nvme swap gets faster too with huge pages then testing a whole microservice swarm on a local dev machine might benefit from it when the currently idle services can be swapped more swiftly while something chews on data.
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