Re: Configuring hugetlb on RedHat 3.0

From: Tommy Reynolds (TommyReynolds_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 03/17/05 

Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 11:05:18 -0600

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 08:42:35 -0800, dunleav1 wrote:

> I am trying to configure a shm filesystem for VLM with a 2 gig test and
> I am receiving errors from an Oracle program trying to access the area.
> I want to make sure I have the Linux area setup correctly. Does this
> look correct and that I have a 2gig shm filesystem available for usage?

Yes. Do you actually have 2GB free system memory? The huge TLB kludge
works by carving out a huge chunk of VM space so that one TLB entry can
cover a huge area, instead of relying on cache misses to populate the TLB
cache.

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