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Maybe they'll ship a usable version of huge pages so that ~all software can go like 10% faster someday. We've waited like 26 years so far.
by anonymoushn 4y ago
Maybe they'll ship a usable version of huge pages so that ~all software can go like 10% faster someday. We've waited like 26 years so far.
- jiggawatts 4y agoSQL Server has been able to do that on Windows for about a decade now. Just grant the “Lock pages in memory” privilege to the service account and it’ll do it automatically if the server has 16 GB of memory or more. I use it as a free 15% go-faster button in my consulting gigs.
- anonymoushn 4y agoThe current implementation is ok for programs that start soon after boot, run as root, and never exit, but even for server workloads there is a lot of other software out there.