On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Ian Wienand wrote: > On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 11:16:11AM -0600, Robin Holt wrote: > I must admit to be a bit perplexed however. I would have thought that > a customer who just spent (what I assume is a lot of) money on a > machine to map huge areas of contiguous memory would really want to > evaluate the probable benefits of larger pages, despite what Redhat > ships. I'll note that SUSE has been shipping a 64k-pagesize kernel for more than a year now as part of SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9, and I have not seen a single L3 support call for this kernel. Which means that it's either completely bug free, or nobody uses it in production. ;-) > I'm probably just extremley naive as to what customers really > want, however. The reason customers generally prefer to go with default kernels, as far as I can tell, is software certification. If you're only running your special applications, you may not care, but for such huge memory configs a DBMS like Oracle or DB2 is often part of the picture, for example. Gerald - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Thu Nov 03 12:36:52 2005
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