RHEL server hangs at boot while configuring HugePages
Issue
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RHEL server hangs at boot while configuring HugePages.
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It has also been observed that setting hugepages take a lot of time. In one case, configuring 164000 hugepages took over 40 minutes.
#>> time sysctl vm.nr_hugepages=163905
vm.nr_hugepages = 163905
real 39m53.176s
user 0m0.000s
sys 39m51.114s
Environment
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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NUMA enabled physical server
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