Poor Performance When Running Splunk Enterprise on RHEL with Transparent Huge Pages Enabled

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Issue

  • Splunk Enterprise system (indexer) performance degraded significantly after upgrading from RHEL 5 to RHEL 6.
  • Splunk Enterprise very high load. Iostat seems to indicate system is waiting on I/O with low disk utilization and low over all utilization.
  • Splunk process (search engine) starts, load average spikes significantly, and %sys increases. Don't seem to be sending/waiting on IO.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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