Linux 3.19-rc3

David Lang david at lang.hm
Fri Jan 9 18:51:04 PST 2015


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



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