Linux 3.19-rc3

[David Lang]

On Fri, 9 Jan 2015, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Big pages are a bad bad bad idea. They work fine for databases, and
> that's pretty much just about it. I'm sure there are some other loads,
> but they are few and far between.

what about a dedicated virtualization host (where your workload is a handful of 
virtual machines), would the file cache issue still be overwelming, even though 
it's the virtual machines accessing things?

David Lang