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* MySQL can use hugetlbfs via the <tt>large-pages</tt> option | * MySQL can use hugetlbfs via the <tt>large-pages</tt> option | ||
* [[kvm]] can use hugetlbfs with the <tt>--mem-path</tt> option since [http://www.linux-kvm.com/content/get-performance-boost-backing-your-kvm-guest-hugetlbfs kvm-62], released in late 2008 | * [[kvm]] can use hugetlbfs with the <tt>--mem-path</tt> option since [http://www.linux-kvm.com/content/get-performance-boost-backing-your-kvm-guest-hugetlbfs kvm-62], released in late 2008 | ||
* The Sun JVM makes transparent use of large pages [http://java.sun.com/javase/technologies/hotspot/largememory.jsp since version 5.0] | |||
==Page Clustering== | ==Page Clustering== | ||
Page clustering (implemented by [http://lwn.net/Articles/23785/ William Lee Irwin] for Linux in 2003, and not to be confused with page-granularity [http://lwn.net/Articles/297299/ swap-out clustering]). There's good coverage in this [http://kerneltrap.org/node/620 KernelTrap article]. This is essentially huge pages without hardware support, and therefore with some overhead and no improvements in TLB-relative performance. It was written up in Irwin's 2003 OLS paper, "[http://ols.fedoraproject.org/OLS/Reprints-2003/Reprint-Irwin-OLS2003.pdf A 2.5 Page Clustering Implementation]". | Page clustering (implemented by [http://lwn.net/Articles/23785/ William Lee Irwin] for Linux in 2003, and not to be confused with page-granularity [http://lwn.net/Articles/297299/ swap-out clustering]). There's good coverage in this [http://kerneltrap.org/node/620 KernelTrap article]. This is essentially huge pages without hardware support, and therefore with some overhead and no improvements in TLB-relative performance. It was written up in Irwin's 2003 OLS paper, "[http://ols.fedoraproject.org/OLS/Reprints-2003/Reprint-Irwin-OLS2003.pdf A 2.5 Page Clustering Implementation]". | ||