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Allocating Huge Pages on Linux
If you build an application that uses large, contiguous amounts of memory, it can increase your performance if you allocate this memory in so-called
huge pages
. Linux offers you two ways of doing that - a legacy way and a modern way. This article describes the modern way of using huge pages, so called
transparent huge pages (THP)
and applies the techniques from a previous article to verify that we actually got huge pages. pages.
Published on Sep 11, 2023
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