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From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber)
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Alan Cox <alan.l.cox@gmail.com> wrote:

> Superpages are not enabled by default but support for them is a standard
> part of the amd64 and i386 kernel on HEAD.  You can enable superpages on
> either of those architectures by simply setting  the tunable
> vm.pmap.pg_ps_enabled to a non-zero value at boot time.

To clarify: This needs to be set in loader.conf.  sysctl.conf is
evaluated too late.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de