Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:38:37 +0100 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange problem with 8-stable, VMWare vSphere 4 & AMD CPUs (unexpected shutdowns) Message-ID: <9bbcef731002101038r1ac04141t505216816489376f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4B72FC55.2090508@icyb.net.ua> References: <hkujop$hsa$1@ger.gmane.org> <4B72D94A.8030509@icyb.net.ua> <hkup1g$763$1@ger.gmane.org> <4B72E93C.80102@icyb.net.ua> <9bbcef731002101003r203f5189xf139700a0d48afa0@mail.gmail.com> <4B72F67F.4000209@icyb.net.ua> <9bbcef731002101026k5007075cqf97fc80404ac3fa7@mail.gmail.com> <4B72FC55.2090508@icyb.net.ua>
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On 10 February 2010 19:35, Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> wrote: > on 10/02/2010 20:26 Ivan Voras said the following: >> On 10 February 2010 19:10, Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> wrote: >>> on 10/02/2010 20:03 Ivan Voras said the following: >>>> When you say "very unique" is it in the "it is not Linux or Windows" >>>> sense or do we do something nonstandard? >>> The former - neither Linux, Windows or OpenSolaris seem to have what we have. >> >> I can't find the exact documents but I think both Windows >> MegaUltimateServer (the highest priced version of Windows Server, >> whatever it's called today) and Linux (though disabled and marked >> Experimental) have it, or have some kind of support for large pages >> that might not be as pervasive (maybe they use it for kernel only?). I >> have no idea about (Open)Solaris. > > I haven't said that those OSes do not use large pages. > I've said what I've said :-) Ok :) Is there a difference between "large pages" as they are commonly known and "superpages" as in FreeBSD ? In other words - are you referencing some specific mechanism, like automatic promotion / demotion of the large pages or maybe something else?
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