Supporting Multiple Page Sizes in the Solaris Operating System 
by Richard McDougall
March, 2004
The Solaris 9 Operating System contains a feature to enable the use of larger memory page sizes for the heap and stack segments of a program. The use of larger page sizes is often able to deliver significant performance gain for a large range of applications. This article explains how to engage the MPSS feature and how to analyze the performance effect. This article requires an intermediate to advanced level reader.
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