On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 4:01 PM, Tsunakawa, Takayuki
<tsunakawa.takay@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> Hello, all
>
> Could you give me your opinions on whether the SHOW command should display the effective value or the specified value
forhuge_pages? During the review of "Supporting huge_pages on Windows", which is now shifted to CommitFest 2017-3,
Magnusgave me a comment that the huge_page variable should retain the value "try" when the huge page is not available
onthe machine and the server falls back to huge_page=off. The Linux version does so.
>
> I don't have a strong opinion on that, but I think a bit that it would be better to reflect the effective setting,
i.e.SHOW displays huge_pages as off, not try.
Not sure if this is best way to do that, but I agree that it's helpful if
we can see whether the server actually uses huge page or not in
huge_page=try case.
Regards,
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Fujii Masao