Added some follow-up observations to my notes about Transparent Huge Pages (THP) on modern desktop Linux systems.
After ~1 week using:
[always] madvise never
on Slackware-current with Firefox-heavy workloads:
- no swap usage
- no THP fallback allocations
- no compaction stalls
- stable desktop responsiveness
Modern kernels appear to handle THP significantly better than older Linux generations, especially on systems with enough RAM, zram, and NVMe storage.
Notes:
https://repo.or.cz/code-notes.git/blob_plain/HEAD:/notes/Transparent_Huge_Pages_on_Desktop_Linux.txt
#linux #slackware
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