Enabling hugepages for use with Oracle Database
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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