On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 10:28:58PM +0200, Toon Moene wrote: > Mel Gorman wrote: > >> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:51:07PM +0200, Toon Moene wrote: > >>> [ I found this e-mail address while surfing http://linux-mm.org - >>> hope it's relevant. ] >>> >>> Is it possible to boot the Linux kernel in such a way as to *only* >>> enable "huge" pages ? >>> >>> I ask this because my use of "da machine" is mostly running large >>> Fortran programs, who need all memory of it anyway, so there's little >>> to gain from small page sizes. > >> If you have a smaller number of fortran applications >> that are consuming all of memory, then recompile them to use hugepages as >> described in the HOWTO. > > OK, close. Which *HOWTO* ? >
The file called HOWTO in the libhugetlbfs source package. The recompilation step will align the sections and then run them with huge pages using hugectl --text --data --bss --heap ./targetapp -- Mel Gorman Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Libhugetlbfs-devel mailing list Libhugetlbfs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libhugetlbfs-devel
