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Arka
Arka

Reputation: 985

OpenSource applications that uses Large/Huge pages on Linux

I was looking for open-source applications that make use of large/huge memory pages (OS memory pages with size > 4KB) on Linux (x86-64). I wanted study how large pages are used today. Can somebody points me to few such applications?

Thanks

Arka

Upvotes: 0

Views: 370

Answers (2)

jørgensen
jørgensen

Reputation: 10549

And finally, with recent Linux kernels having support for transparent hugepages, programs can/will make use of it without knowing they do.

Upvotes: 1

MarkR
MarkR

Reputation: 63548

Memcached and MySQL both have the option to use large pages if they're available.

Upvotes: 0

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