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| | 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. The article starts by giving a super-short recap on how paging works and why huge p...
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| | This post details my adventures with the Linux virtual memory subsystem, and my discovery of a creative way to taunt the OOM (out of memory) killer by accumulating memory in the kernel, rather than in userspace. Keep reading and you'll learn: Internal details of the Linux kernel's demand paging implementation How to exploit virtual memory [...]
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