Re: Bug#533708: ITP: libhugetlbfs -- Tools and Library access huge pages of memory

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Subject: Re: Bug#533708: ITP: libhugetlbfs -- Tools and Library access huge pages of memory
From: Vincent Danjean <vdanjean.ml@free.fr>
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:31:40 +0100
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On 23/03/2010 09:57, Colin Watson wrote:
> Who should be able to use huge pages?  What basis should a system
> administrator use to determine who should be added to this group?

To start, I see two use cases:
- developers/researchers, in particular in HPC field that needs to
  be able to efficiently use the memory
  => some users need to have access to huge pages
- HPC applications
  => some applications need to have access to huge pages

  Regards,
    Vincent

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