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| | [AI summary] The post explains how using huge pages in virtual memory can improve CPU performance by reducing translation lookaside buffer (TLB) misses, while discussing potential downsides like memory fragmentation and compatibility issues with certain software patterns.
| | quickwit.io
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| | blog.nelhage.com
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| | tl;dr "Transparent Hugepages" is a Linux kernel feature intended to improve performance by making more efficient use of your processor's memory-mapping hardware. It is enabled ("enabled=always") by default in most Linux distributions. Transparent Hugepages gives some applications a small performance improvement (~ 10% at best, 0-3% more typically), but can cause significant performance problems, or even apparent memory leaks at worst. To avoid these problems, you should set enabled=madvise on your server...
| | wwwtech.de
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| [AI summary] A user shares their experience learning Rust, a systems programming language, by building a parallel file search tool and praising its safety features, type system, and documentation while critiquing some API usability.