On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It's an alternative to creating more swap. > When using large RAM sizes for guests on hosts with limited physical > RAM/swap this option gives the user a way to use files instead of swap. Well, I don't still quite see the point of this feature. Is there some real world use for running guests with huge memory space that's swap-backed? On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This can also be extended to use hugetlbfs. Recent Linux kernels support transparent hugepages so you can do MADV_HUGEPAGE on mmap'd memory. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
