pretty interesting. i'll test it for oracle. But the db_cache will be a simple swap file. i don't think it's as good as real memory for dirty lists management.
Mathias Selon David Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I'll post something I heard about when looking into upgrading Oracle 8i > from Windows to Oracle 10g on Linux. > > To get more memory for the process, you would enable big memory page, > and then create an in-memory temp file system; you could then allocate > extra memory for a process, and part of it would be swapped out to this > temp file system in memory. Red Hat Advanced Server was the OS of choice > for those who did it - I played around with it, but couldn't get Oracle > to start with larger memory settings (we weren't running on RedHat AS). > Maybe you'll have more luck. > > A good page that talked about this was, > > http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/Linux/LargeSGAOnLinux.php > > Good luck. > > David > > Jeff Smelser wrote: > > >On Friday 17 June 2005 02:38 pm, Brady Brown wrote: > > > > > >>Have any of you MySQL/FreeBSD cats successfully set > >>innodb_buffer_pool_size > 2G without runing into any of the memory > >>allocation problems found on Linux platforms? > >> > >> > > > >It has nothing to do with linux.. its an x86 thing.. So no.. > > > >However, some kernels have things to let you go over, but you get weird > >results when doing so. > > > >Jeff > > > > > > > > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
