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| | blog.peterdonis.com
It's Not Magic - Linux Kernel Site (Not) Cracked
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| | A Blog by Peter A. Donis
| | blog.oddball.tech
Kernel patchsets - Currency
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| | `gregkh` has some opinions about what version of the Linux kernel you should use. I largely agree, but I think we can go further.
| | sergioprado.blog
How is the Linux kernel tested? - sergioprado.blog
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| | Have you ever wondered how the Linux kernel is tested?
| | blog.nelhage.com
Disable Transparent Hugepages - Made of Bugs
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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...