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* RAM huge pages?David Chmelik
`* Re: RAM huge pages?Andreas Kempe
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Subject: RAM huge pages?
From: David Chmelik
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
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Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2024 06:44 UTC
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From: dchmelik@gmail.com (David Chmelik)
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Subject: RAM huge pages?
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Can one set 1280 2MB and allow 1GB RAM huge pages? There's a bash script
that does on GNU/Linux (by the xmr-stak-rx programmer) but this expects
Linux kernel software/settings not present on *BSD...

Subject: Re: RAM huge pages?
From: Andreas Kempe
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Organization: Lysator ACS
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2024 23:20 UTC
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From: kempe@lysator.liu.se (Andreas Kempe)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: RAM huge pages?
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2024 23:20:49 -0000 (UTC)
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Den 2024-01-02 skrev David Chmelik <dchmelik@gmail.com>:
> Can one set 1280 2MB and allow 1GB RAM huge pages? There's a bash script
> that does on GNU/Linux (by the xmr-stak-rx programmer) but this expects
> Linux kernel software/settings not present on *BSD...

FreeBSD's virtual memory system automatically merges smaller pages
into larger pages if appropriate. This is done automatically and you
don't have to change any settings. You can find a counter of how many
promotions have happened in the vm.pmap.pde.promotions sysctl.

Subject: Re: RAM huge pages?
From: David Chmelik
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Subject: Re: RAM huge pages?
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On Tue, 2 Jan 2024 23:20:49 -0000 (UTC), Andreas Kempe wrote:

> Den 2024-01-02 skrev David Chmelik <dchmelik@gmail.com>:
>> Can one set 1280 2MB and allow 1GB RAM huge pages? There's a bash
>> script that does on GNU/Linux (by the xmr-stak-rx programmer) but this
>> expects Linux kernel software/settings not present on *BSD...
>
> FreeBSD's virtual memory system automatically merges smaller pages into
> larger pages if appropriate. This is done automatically and you don't
> have to change any settings. You can find a counter of how many
> promotions have happened in the vm.pmap.pde.promotions sysctl.

Great... however, I installed ports/net-p2p/xmrig which says 1GB huge-
pages are unavailable... is it inaccurate or I should bug-report to xmrig
computer/software programmer/developer it's not programmed right for
FreeBSD UNIX?

Subject: Re: RAM huge pages?
From: Andreas Kempe
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Organization: Lysator ACS
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2024 12:35 UTC
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From: kempe@lysator.liu.se (Andreas Kempe)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: RAM huge pages?
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2024 12:35:19 -0000 (UTC)
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Den 2024-01-03 skrev David Chmelik <dchmelik@gmail.com>:
>
> Great... however, I installed ports/net-p2p/xmrig which says 1GB huge-
> pages are unavailable... is it inaccurate or I should bug-report to xmrig
> computer/software programmer/developer it's not programmed right for
> FreeBSD UNIX?

As far as I know, FreeBSD's max page size is 2 MB. I think 1 GB pages
are a Linux specific thing.

Subject: Re: RAM huge pages?
From: David Chmelik
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On Wed, 3 Jan 2024 12:35:19 -0000 (UTC), Andreas Kempe wrote:

> Den 2024-01-03 skrev David Chmelik <dchmelik@gmail.com>:
>>
>> Great... however, I installed ports/net-p2p/xmrig which says 1GB huge-
>> pages are unavailable... is it inaccurate or I should bug-report to
>> xmrig computer/software programmer/developer it's not programmed right
>> for FreeBSD UNIX?
>
> As far as I know, FreeBSD's max page size is 2 MB. I think 1 GB pages
> are a Linux specific thing.

I read they might still exist as 'superpages'?

Subject: Re: RAM huge pages?
From: Andreas Kempe
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Organization: Lysator ACS
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2024 00:09 UTC
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From: kempe@lysator.liu.se (Andreas Kempe)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: RAM huge pages?
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2024 00:09:59 -0000 (UTC)
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Den 2024-01-04 skrev David Chmelik <dchmelik@gmail.com>:
> On Wed, 3 Jan 2024 12:35:19 -0000 (UTC), Andreas Kempe wrote:
>> As far as I know, FreeBSD's max page size is 2 MB. I think 1 GB pages
>> are a Linux specific thing.
>
> I read they might still exist as 'superpages'?

AFAIK, super pages are the 2 MB pages and they are the largest
continuous allocations FreeBSD makes.

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