Is it recommended to enable large pages with JBoss EAP even when Transparent Huge Pages is enabled ?

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Issue

  • We are running jboss6 eap on rhel6.5 vm with the following specs:
cpu:4vCPU
mem: 32GB   
Transparent Huge Pages (THP): [always] madvise never

java_opt:
-Xms6144m -Xmx6144m -XX:CMSInitiatingOccupancyFraction=70 -XX:+DisableExplicitGC -XX:-HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -XX:MaxPermSize=1024m -XX:MaxTenuringThreshold=3 -XX:NewRatio=2 -XX:PermSize=1024m 
  • we want to know if Redhat recommends enabling large pages with JBoss EAP to improve performance even when THP is enabled ?

Environment

  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP)
    • 7.x
    • 6.x
    • 5.x
  • Oracle JDK
  • OpenJDK

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