Does Red Hat Enterprise Linux support Page Cache Limits for SAP server?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Does RHEL have similar parameters to SuSE/SLES which can be used to keep SAP applications in memory?
  • Request for SAP memory management, page cache occupancy, kswapd behaviour, etc patches into RHEL6
  • Does RHEL implement the following kernel tunables:
vm.pagecache_limit_mb (/proc/sys/vm/pagecache_limit_mb)
vm.pagecache_limit_ignore_dirty(/proc/sys/vm/pagecache_limit_ignore_dirty)

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • SAP workload

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