Several vmware instances have fallen over with an out of memory kernel panic after setting "vm.nr_hugepages=650" on RHEL 5.4
Issue
- Several vmware instances have fallen over with an out of memory kernel panic after setting:
vm.nr_hugepages=650
mount -t hugetlbfs nodev /mnt/hugepages
chown vignette.vignette
/mnt/hugepages/
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
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