I can only confirm that on LINUX, cpu/memory only test (all cached)
repeated with and without hugepages (2mb pages ) shows a steady 8%
improvement in favor of hugepages configuration.
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Christo Kutrovsky
Senior Database/System Administrator
The Pythian Group
On 2/15/06, Tanel Põder <tanel.poder.003_at_mail.ee> wrote:
>
> I think in heavily concurrent VLM environments, large pages can pay off. TPC
> tests use usually large pages as well, I've seen even 16MB page sizes in
> some configurations.
>
> Tanel.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Allen, Brandon
> To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
> Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 3:48 PM
> Subject: Large Page Memory on AIX
>
> I was just reading this white paper on tuning AIX 5L for Oracle:
>
> http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/enable/site/peducation/wp/9a46/9a46.pdf
>
> and am curious about the section on Large Page Memory (page 10).
>
> Is anyone out there using the large page feature with Oracle 9i on AIX 5.2
> or 5.3? Did you see any noticeable improvement from implementing it?
>
> Thanks,
> Brandon
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