SuperPages utilization survey

[Mark Felder]

On Sat, 02 Jun 2012 06:49:18 -0500, Florian Smeets <flo at freebsd.org> wrote:

> As far as i understand it does at least enable usage of pages up to 4MB,
> perhaps someone should teach mysql about the FreeBSD's limits?
> If you look at the output i sent, it certainly changes from using no
> superpage mappings at all to using them to some degree, if you script
> can be trusted

Wow, this is a nice find. If someone were to add a patch for FreeBSD's  
superpages we might be able to get a nice little performance boost with  
little effort. Even the increase to 4MB for now is a welcome improvement.  
I'll make sure to put this in my toolbox....