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[Zan Lynx]

Yes, although many distributions like Fedora disable automatic huge pages. On those you only get huge pages when you ask for them with mmap and MAP_HUGETLB...

[Zan Lynx]

It should decrease it. Using 2MB pages should remove the need for 4K TLB structures under that 2MB page.

Although, if you only needed 16KB...

[Zan Lynx]

The definition of "reasonable" seems to vary a lot. For a whole lot of people, the GPU included with their Intel i5 or AMD APU is just fine....

[Zan Lynx]

Could you explain more about what is meant by "performance marginality?" It seems open to several different meanings and I'm not sure what you...

[Zan Lynx]

I'm not sure what your point is here.

If you are using a game engine, you don't need to be worrying about what graphics API is in use. Unless...

[Zan Lynx]

I've been running btrfs on my home fileserver since 2012. I started with two 2 TB WD Reds. I've added four more drives and replaced the 2 TB drives after...

[Zan Lynx]

You have to be joking. Have you ever tried bisecting a kernel bug? It can take DAYS....

[Zan Lynx]

I suppose that it would be pretty. But in my opinion if you're running multi-disk btrfs you should be doing it from the command line.

If...

[Zan Lynx]

There's no reason to use UTF8 in a build system.

Build tools can do their jobs entirely in 8-bit binary, they have no need to understand...

[Zan Lynx]

At least systemd's suspend / resume handlers have never left my laptop awake after I've closed the lid. Unlike UPower before systemd. Upower before systemd...