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Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 15:59:48 +0100
Subject: [TUHS] /dev/drum
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On 25 Apr 2018, at 15:02, arnold at skeeve.com wrote:
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> Why not? If there's enough backing store availble?

Well, I think because the situations where you are using huge pages and the situations where you're paging to backing store should really be mutually exclusive: if your system is paging to backing store you have problems which huge pages are not going to solve.
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