Re: Linux 3.19-rc3

From: David Lang
Date: Fri Jan 09 2015 - 21:52:07 EST


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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