Hugepages remain allocated after database shutdown

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Issue

  • Not all hugepages are released on database shutdown
  • Hugepages are still shown as used in /proc/meminfo although 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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