Wojciech Puchar wrote:
how can i check in program that the region is mapped using huge pages?
I am not entirely sure from within userland, but I believe the kernel boot
messages will indicate the status of PAE.
i use mmap with address padded to 4M and mlock.
Note that there is a separate
how can i check in program that the region is mapped using huge pages? i
use mmap with address padded to 4M and mlock.
On Sun, 1 Jul 2007, Chuck Swiger wrote:
Wojciech Puchar wrote:
does FreeBSD {can,will,patch exist} supports using huge pages? i mean 2M
pages on AMD64 and 2/4M pages on i386
with 1536MB AMD64 machine it would be nice for FreeBSD to boot seeing 256
megs for itself and allowing 1280 megs to be mapped&locked to just one
program.
Hmm. Doesn't FreeBSD's default VM behavior do just fine dealing with one
large active process without any unusual tuning?
what version?
Wojciech Puchar wrote:
does FreeBSD {can,will,patch exist} supports using huge pages? i mean 2M
pages on AMD64 and 2/4M pages on i386
I believe so, yes-- isn't this what the PAE kernel option does?
i need freebsd just for running one program needing about 1280 megs of
data space (+1-2 meg of
