Beginning with Java SE 5.0 there is a cross-platform flag for requesting large memory pages: -XX:+UseLargePages (on by default for Solaris, off by default for Windows and Linux). The goal of large page support is to optimize processor Translation-Lookaside Buffers. A Translation-Lookaside Buffer (TLB) is a page translation cache that holds the most-recently used virtual-to-physical address transla