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