Huge memory optimizations

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If huge memory is in use there is no point calling madvise to return the pages to the operating system.

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Gavin Halliday December 5, 2014 at 5:44 PM

The work on this headed off in an unexpected direction. I spotted an option on madvise to use huge pages, and instead of one flag there are now two - the second allowing the memory to be freed in blocks.

Gavin Halliday December 5, 2014 at 8:18 AM

Also use the flag to allow the disabled bitset regression tests to run.

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Created December 3, 2014 at 3:43 PM
Updated December 10, 2014 at 3:32 PM
Resolved December 10, 2014 at 3:32 PM