Transparent Hugepage Performance On Linux 6.18 LTS: Madvise vs. Always

Written by Michael Larabel in Memory on 6 January 2026 at 10:45 AM EST. Page 3 of 4. 24 Comments.

Across different video encoding applications, THP in always mode was often providing slight performance advantages.

And a massive win with THP always for 7-Zip compression.

THP always mode provided significant time savings across different code compilation benchmarks on this AMD EPYC Zen 5 Supermicro server.

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