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Huge pages is good when a single process is reserving a giant block of memory which I think isnt that common. You might have transparent huge pages on by defau
by nijave 6mo ago
Huge pages is good when a single process is reserving a giant block of memory which I think isnt that common.
You might have transparent huge pages on by default depending on the distro
- fc417fc802 6mo agoNo idea about hugepages but mmaping giant blocks of memory is extremely common. IIRC Chrome maps something like 1 TB on startup. I think (?) you don't actually see benefit from hugepages unless you actually write to a large amount of memory though.