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 4 of 4. 24 Comments.

Across the ClickHouse and Pogocache server workloads, there wasn't any real difference.

👁 nginx benchmark with settings of Connections: 500. madvise was the fastest.

Nginx serving up static content over HTTPS slightly favored madvise.

👁 Llama.cpp benchmark with settings of Backend: CPU BLAS, Model: Qwen3-8B-Q8_0, Test: Text Generation 128. always was the fastest.

👁 Llama.cpp benchmark with settings of Backend: CPU BLAS, Model: Qwen3-8B-Q8_0, Test: Prompt Processing 512. madvise was the fastest.

👁 Llama.cpp benchmark with settings of Backend: CPU BLAS, Model: Qwen3-8B-Q8_0, Test: Prompt Processing 1024. madvise was the fastest.

👁 Llama.cpp benchmark with settings of Backend: CPU BLAS, Model: gpt-oss-20b-Q8_0, Test: Text Generation 128. madvise was the fastest.

👁 Llama.cpp benchmark with settings of Backend: CPU BLAS, Model: gpt-oss-20b-Q8_0, Test: Prompt Processing 512. madvise was the fastest.

👁 Llama.cpp benchmark with settings of Backend: CPU BLAS, Model: gpt-oss-20b-Q8_0, Test: Prompt Processing 1024. madvise was the fastest.

👁 Llama.cpp benchmark with settings of Backend: CPU BLAS, Model: Llama-3.1-Tulu-3-8B-Q8_0, Test: Prompt Processing 512. madvise was the fastest.

👁 Llama.cpp benchmark with settings of Backend: CPU BLAS, Model: Llama-3.1-Tulu-3-8B-Q8_0, Test: Prompt Processing 2048. madvise was the fastest.

👁 Llama.cpp benchmark with settings of Backend: CPU BLAS, Model: DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B-Q8_0, Test: Prompt Processing 2048. madvise was the fastest.

CPU inferencing with Llama.cpp was slightly faster in THP madvise.

👁 GPAW benchmark with settings of Input: Carbon Nanotube. always was the fastest.

👁 Blender benchmark with settings of Blend File: Classroom, Compute: CPU-Only. always was the fastest.

Those wanting to go through more benchmark results of this Phoronix Premium reader-requested THP madvise vs. always testing can do so via this result file.

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