Oracle Database is not using the configured Huge Pages
Issue
- Oracle Database is using regular
4Ksize pages instead ofHuge Pages. - Oracle Database is not using the configured
Huge Pages.
# grep nr_hugepages /etc/sysctl.conf
vm.nr_hugepages= 76800
$ grep ^HugePages -A 1 /proc/meminfo
HugePages_Total: 76800
HugePages_Free: 76800
HugePages_Rsvd: 0
HugePages_Surp: 0
Hugepagesize: 2048 kB
$ grep memlock /etc/security/limits.conf
# - memlock - max locked-in-memory address space (KB)
oracle soft memlock 157286400
oracle hard memlock 157286400
Oracle Databse initialization parameter 'use_large_pages' is set to 'TRUE'.
use_large_pages = TRUE
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7,8,9
- Oracle Database
- HugePages
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