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Re:Optimizing Linux Memory Management for Low-latency, High-... by SEJeff on Tuesday October 08, 2013 @11:47PM (#6519289)
One correction, in the Linux community, they are generally referred to as Huge Pages.
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Re:Optimizing Linux Memory Management for Low-latency, High-... by MichaelGG on Wednesday October 09, 2013 @12:32AM (#6519408)
I guess my Windows bias is showing through. Let's split it and call 2MB pages large, and 1GB huge. (Yeah, I know 1GB pages only have real hardware support in really recent processors.)
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Re:Optimizing Linux Memory Management for Low-latency, High-... by SEJeff on Thursday October 10, 2013 @05:01PM (#6530009)
touche, you get an upvote from me :)
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