Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 9 Jan 2015 19:17:50 -0800 | Subject | Re: Linux 3.19-rc3 | From | Tony Luck <> |
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On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 6:27 PM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 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.
For HPC too. They tend not to do a lot of I/O (and when they do it is from a few big files). Then they just sit crunching over gigabytes of memory for seven and a half million years before doing:
printf("Answer is %d\n", 42);
-Tony
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