Out of curiosity; were you running into performance problems or just wanting to get it working?
I've found that huge pages have some payoff but I kept getting better improvements by fixing other things :) On Mon, 3 Jul 2017, 'Mario Niebla' via memcached wrote: > Ah, ok...thanks for the info. I'll do that. > > cheers, > > /m > > On Monday, July 3, 2017 at 12:34:42 PM UTC-7, Dormando wrote: > It never actually worked in linux... support was written for solaris and > I've never prioritized doing it in linux. > > You should open an issue on the github repo so people can register > interest there; it shouldn't be too hard to do once some other stuff has > settled down. > > On Mon, 3 Jul 2017, 'Mario Niebla' via memcached wrote: > > > Has anyone ever gotten the '-L' (large page support) to work in > Linux? > > > > I know my amazon 2017.03 AMI kernel supports huge-pages. > > > > In theory, I have set up my box 512 huge pages at 2MB each so I can > start > memcached with a 1GB cache size. > > > > I've verified this by doing `cat /proc/meminfo |grep Huge`, which > yields: > > > > AnonHugePages: 243712 kB > > ShmemHugePages: 0 kB > > HugePages_Total: 512 > > HugePages_Free: 512 > > HugePages_Rsvd: 0 > > HugePages_Surp: 0 > > Hugepagesize: 2048 kB > > > > I saw that as of 1.42, there was some support for libhugetlbfs...but > there really isnt much info around how to make that lib work with > memcached. > > > > In digging around the internet...there doesn't seem to be a whole lot > in > terms of success stories around people getting this feature to work. > > > > Does anyone here have any more info that might be useful? > > > > thanks, > > /m > > > > -- > > > > --- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > "memcached" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, > send an > email to memcached+...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > > > -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "memcached" > group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to > memcached+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "memcached" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to memcached+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
