Re: PostgreSQL and HugePage

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:10:22PM -0700, David Gould wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 08:16:27AM -0700, Mark Wong wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 8:30 PM, daveg <daveg@sonic.net> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 04:08:37PM +1300, Mark Kirkwood wrote:
> > >> On 20/10/10 16:05, Mark Kirkwood wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >shmget and friends are hugetlbpage  aware, so it seems it should 'just
> > >> >work'.
> > >> >
> > >>
> > >> Heh - provided you specify
> > >>
> > >> SHM_HUGETLB
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> in the relevant call that is :-)
> > >
> > > I had a patch for this against 8.3 that I could update if there is any
> > > interest. I suspect it is helpful.
> > 
> > Oh, probably better than me digging up my broken one.  Send it out as
> > is if you don't want to update it. :)
> 
> I'll update it and see if I can get a largish machine to test, at least with
> pgbench on. But not today alas.

If you'd be so kind as to update it, others can probably find the
aforementioned largish machine to test it on :)

Cheers,
David.
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