Enabling hugepages for use with Oracle Database

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Issue

  • Frequent unresponsiveness of server and application during heavy load
  • Near constant io wait on the server above 30%
  • How do I determine how many hugepages to preallocate for my Oracle instance?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Oracle Database

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