Usage:
You can specify exactly the size of the Large Pages size with this:
-XX:LargePageSizeInBytes=size, where size is the desired amount of memory which should be set to the size of Large Page, specified in GB/MB/KB
Examples:
To set the page size to 1GB you can use the following:
-XX:LargePageSizeInBytes=1g
Description:
Large pages is a technique to remove some work from the processors TLB caches. They are used to speed up the time to translate virtual to physical memory addresses. Most architectures support multiple page sizes, often with a base page size of 4 KB. For heavy-memory consuming applications it makes sense to have the memory mapped with a larger page granularity to increase the chance of a hit in the TLB. On x86-64, 2 MB and 1 GB pages can be used for this purpose and for memory intense workloads this can have a really big impact. With larger page sizes we can have a better use of memory resources, but, this may lead to larger space sizes for the PermGen, which consequently can force to reduce the size of Java heap space
Default Value:
JVM is system-dependent, by default, the JVM will use the environments default large page size value.
Errors:
None
Arguments related:
TODO link UseLargePages
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