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Host
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Physical machine
2 * Intel X5670 @ 2.93 GHz, HT activated, 24 threads, cpufreq deactivated
48 GB

OS: SLES10 SP3
Linux ncegcolnx243 2.6.16.60-0.54.5-smp #1 SMP Fri Sep 4 01:28:03 UTC 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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Redis can be compiled against libhugetlbfs, so huge pages support can be activated with Linux >= 2.6.16.
It should cover Enterprise Linux distros such as SLES 10 or better, and RHEL/Centos/OEL 5 or better.

Be sure to read http://lwn.net/Articles/374424/ first.

Install libhugetlbfs source code in local directory $DIRHUGE
Source can be downloaded from http://libhugetlbfs.sourceforge.net/ 
Compile only the 64 bits version using make BUILDTYPE=NATIVEONLY
The library will be generated in $DIRHUGE/obj64 - add it in your LD_LIBRARY_PATH

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/* 
This function makes use of /proc to evaluate the ratio between shared and private memory blocks.
It is expressed as a percentage: 90 means 90% of the blocks are shared, and 10% have been duplicated.
Call this function at the very end of the child process.
For Redis, it is supposed to be called at the end of rdbSave (file rdb.c)

Ugly but effective. 
Please note it does not work if huge pages are used
*/

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From 6094d46541b1fd66c65954b611e8b7e7a6cd7665 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Didier Spezia <didier.06@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 22:53:41 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix makefile for tcmalloc/jemalloc

---
 src/Makefile |   27 +++++++++++++--------------
 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/Makefile b/src/Makefile