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Redis warns against transparent hugepages while the DBA asks for 2MB pages. Who is right?

Transparent versus explicit hugepages is a control question, not a size question. Fork-heavy stores suffer THP copy-on-write amplification while large-resident databases gain TLB reach.

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Transparent versus explicit hugepages is a control question, not a size question. Fork-heavy stores suffer THP copy-on-write amplification while large-resident databases gain TLB reach.

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