We've been using them on RHEL x86_64 via Linux's anonhugepages mechanism for a while now. I'm not sure that they improve performance but they certainly haven't hurt anything that I can tell.
On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 11:15:30AM +0000, Rhodes, Richard L. wrote: > I've been in meetings/training this week about AIX LPM and other stuff > related with LPARS. We got talking about our TSM servers, and the IBM leader > mentioned a presentation given a while ago at a IBM conference about using > LARGE PAGES (16MB) with TSM to prevent lock contention. This is supposed to > help if you drive some large number of tape drives concurrently. He mentioned > one company that implemented this and saw a 20% increase in tape throughput. > > http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21649823&aid=1 > > I'm curious if anyone out there has heard of this and possibly implemented > large pages for TSM. > > Thanks! > > Rick -- -- Skylar Thompson (skyl...@u.washington.edu) -- Genome Sciences Department, System Administrator -- Foege Building S046, (206)-685-7354 -- University of Washington School of Medicine
