We'd like to run an experiment and see if MAGMA will run any faster/better/different with a larger page size.
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Alex Chekholko <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:33:08 -0500 > Michael Di Domenico <[email protected]> wrote: > >> does anyone know if it's still possible to change the default >> page_size from 4k to something larger on RHEL v5 x86_64? >> >> My efforts to recompile the kernel with a larger page size are failing >> me, but i might be doing it wrong... > > Hi Michael, > > What are you actually trying to accomplish? > > These links may be relevant: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_(computer_memory)#Huge_pages > http://dank.qemfd.net/dankwiki/index.php/Pages > > One place where this comes up is trying to increase the blocksize of > ext3; my understanding is that it's not possible in practice: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext3#cite_note-7 > > Regards, > -- > Alex Chekholko [email protected] > _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
