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How I ended up writing a new real-time kernel [Dmitry Frank]
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Kernel development [LWN.net]
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The Performance of Open Source SoftwareWarp
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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...