Re: [rfc] lockless pagecache

William Lee Irwin III
2005-06-28T01:26:46Z

Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
>> Shared memory overhead doesn't show up on any of the database benchmarks
>> I've seen, as they tend to use huge pages that are locked in memory, and
>> thus don't tend to access the page cache at all after ramp up.

On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 10:32:51AM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> To be quite honest I don't have any real workloads here that stress
> it, however I was told that it is a problem for oracle database. If
> there is anyone else who has problems then I'd be interested to hear
> them as well.

It's vlm-specific.

-- wli