Explain vm.vm_devzero_optimized beyond the standard documentations.

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Issue

While installing Oracle 11g release 2, some of the servers show high CPU utilization, while the strace of Oracle shadow process shows that its spending most of its time mmap() on /dev/zero.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

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