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Added gpedit.msc instructions
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* LARGE PAGE SUPPORT
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* By default we will try to allocate large pages. This means you need to "Run As Administrator" on Windows.
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* You need to edit your system's group policies to enable locking large pages. Here are the steps from MSDN
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* 1. On the Start menu, click Run. In the Open box, type gpedit.msc.
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* 2. On the Local Group Policy Editor console, expand Computer Configuration, and then expand Windows Settings.
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* 3. Expand Security Settings, and then expand Local Policies.
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* 4. Select the User Rights Assignment folder.
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* 5. The policies will be displayed in the details pane.
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* 6. In the pane, double-click Lock pages in memory.
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* 7. In the Local Security Setting – Lock pages in memory dialog box, click Add User or Group.
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* 8. In the Select Users, Service Accounts, or Groups dialog box, add an account that you will run the miner on
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* 9. Reboot for change to take effect.
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* Windows also tends to fragment memory a lot. If you are running on a system with 4-8GB of RAM you might need
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* to switch off all the auto-start applications and reboot to have a large enough chunk of contiguous memory.
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* On Linux you will need to configure large page support "sudo sysctl -w vm.nr_hugepages=128" and increase your
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* ulimit -l. To do do this you need to add following lines to /etc/security/limits.conf - "* soft memlock 262144"
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* and "* hard memlock 262144". You can also do it Windows-style and simply run-as-root, but this is NOT
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