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NVIDIA Engineer Revives Work On Linux Proactive Memory Compaction

Phoronix - Tue, 05/19/2020 - 06:11
One of the interesting patch series initially published back in 2019 by NVIDIA engineer Nitin Gupta was on proactive memory compaction for the Linux kernel while so far in 2020 it hasn't yet been merged but a fifth revision to the work was published today...

Xeon Gold 6250 vs. EPYC 7F32 - 8-Core Server CPU Performance On Ubuntu 20.04

Phoronix - Tue, 05/19/2020 - 01:00
Launched last month were the AMD EPYC 7Fx2 CPUs as new high frequency SKUs and with larger L3 cache sizes. Following our initial EPYC 7F52 benchmarking we moved on to testing the EPYC 7F32 and today are putting it head-to-head against the Xeon Gold 6250 and other EPYC/Xeon SKUs while running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

OpenBSD Seeing Initial Work Land On Enabling 64-bit POWER

Phoronix - Mon, 05/18/2020 - 22:51
It's arguably long overdue but OpenBSD is seeing initial work on POWERPC64 enablement landing in its source tree...

GCC 11 Adds CPU Detection For Newer Intel Families

Phoronix - Mon, 05/18/2020 - 21:15
Adding to the early changes accumulating for the GCC 11 development cycle is automatic CPU detection support for newer families of Intel CPUs...

XSAVES Supervisor States For Linux 5.8 To Support Future Intel CPU Features

Phoronix - Mon, 05/18/2020 - 19:05
Queued up this weekend as part of the x86/fpu changes slated for the upcoming Linux 5.8 cycle is low-level functionality necessary for supporting other current and future Intel CPU features...

GCC 11 Picks Up A New Option For Large Source Files

Phoronix - Mon, 05/18/2020 - 18:40
When seeing GCC 11 in its early development state pick up a new -flarge-source-files option I was curious what that was all about......

3 Ways to Create Bootable Ubuntu USB Startup Disk

Tecmint - Mon, 05/18/2020 - 18:33
Creating a bootable USB drive is one of the most preferred ways of testing and installing a Linux operating system on a PC. This is so because most modern PCs don’t come with a...

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