At some point in the past, Tony Luck wrote:

quoted

Can't you use LD_PRELOAD tricks to sneak a different version shmget/shmat
to your DB2 binary so that you can intercept the important calls and
divert them to use huge tlb pages?

On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 02:42:31PM -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote:

If we had a shmget/shmat call that supported large pages, that would 
probably make it easier ? ;-) That's the whole issue - large pages aren't
supported with standard syscalls, so every app is required to rewrite their
memory handling, which isn't going to happen.
M.

The pressure on this never lets up. It's being done, though I can't say
I'm entirely happy with how quickly/slowly I'm getting it done myself.


Bill
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