The following huge pages script is from Tuning Red Hat Enterprise Linux For Oracle & Oracle RAC by Scott Crot, Sr. Consultant, Red Hat and modified to include the values Oracle’s soft memlock, hard memlock, and work with kernel 3.10

#!/bin/bash
KERN=`uname -r | awk -F. '{ printf("%d.%d\n",$1,$2); }'`
# Find out the HugePage size
HPG_SZ=`grep Hugepagesize /proc/meminfo | awk '{print $2}'`
# Start from 1 pages to be on the safe side and guarantee 1 free HugePage
NUM_PG=1
# Cumulative number of pages required to handle the running shared memory
segments
for SEG_BYTES in `ipcs -m | awk '{print $5}' | grep "[0-9][0-9]*"`
do
MIN_PG=`echo "$SEG_BYTES/($HPG_SZ*1024)" | bc -q`
if [ $MIN_PG -gt 0 ]; then
NUM_PG=`echo "$NUM_PG+$MIN_PG+1" | bc -q`
fi
done
# Finish with results
case $KERN in
'2.4') HUGETLB_POOL=`echo "$NUM_PG*$HPG_SZ/1024" | bc -q`;
echo "Recommended setting: vm.hugetlb_pool = $HUGETLB_POOL" ;;
'2.6') MEM_LOCK=`echo "$NUM_PG*$HPG_SZ" | bc -q`;
echo "Recommended setting within the kernel boot command line: hugepages =
$NUM_PG"
echo "Recommended setting within /etc/security/limits.d/99-grid-oracle-limits.conf:
oracle soft memlock $MEM_LOCK"
echo "Recommended setting within /etc/security/limits.d/99-grid-oracle-limits.conf:
oracle hard memlock $MEM_LOCK" ;;
'3.10') MEM_LOCK=`echo "$NUM_PG*$HPG_SZ" | bc -q`;
echo "Recommended setting within the kernel boot command line: hugepages =
$NUM_PG"
echo "Recommended setting within /etc/security/limits.d/99-grid-oracle-limits.conf:
oracle soft memlock $MEM_LOCK"
echo "Recommended setting within /etc/security/limits.d/99-grid-oracle-limits.conf:
oracle hard memlock $MEM_LOCK" ;;
*) echo "Unrecognized kernel version $KERN. Exiting." ;;
esac