On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 01:43:27PM -0600, Gary Mills wrote:
> 
> This line was a workaround for bug 6642475 that had to do with
> searching for for large contiguous pages. The result was high system
> time and slow response.  I can't find any public information on this
> bug, although I assume it's been fixed by now.  It may have only
> affected Oracle database.

I eventually found it.  The bug is not visible from Sunsolve even with
a contract, but it is in bugs.opensolaris.org without one.  This is
extremely confusing.

> I'd like to remove this line from /etc/system now, but I don't know
> if it will have any adverse effect on ZFS or the Cyrus IMAP server
> that runs on this machine.  Does anyone know if ZFS uses large memory
> pages?

Bug 6642475 is still outstanding, although related bugs have been fixed.
I'm going to leave `set pg_contig_disable=1' in place.

-- 
-Gary Mills-        -Unix Group-        -Computer and Network Services-
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