Hugepages remain allocated after database shutdown
Issue
- Not all hugepages are released on database shutdown
- Hugepages are still shown as used in
/proc/meminfoalthough the database was shut down
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 up to RHEL 5.5
- kernel prior to
kernel-2.6.18-238.el5
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