Accelerating Memory-Intensive Workloads on Amazon EKS with Huge Pages

Accelerating Memory-Intensive Workloads on Amazon EKS with Huge Pages

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Ever tried to squeeze a king-sized mattress into a twin bed frame? That’s what running memory-intensive applications on Kubernetes feels like without proper configuration. Your workloads are gasping for memory while performance nosedives.

Here’s the thing: regular memory pages in Linux are like having thousands of tiny drawers instead of a few large cabinets for your stuff. It’s inefficient when you’re dealing with big data.