Possible THP stalls and high swapping on Multi-NUMA Systems (SAP HANA on RHEL)
Issue
- Potential hangs and performance issues observed when THP (Transparent Huge Pages) is enabled in the on multi-NUMA node/systems (SAP HANA on RHEL).
- Some instances of application abnormalities on RHEL9 observed due to server lag and hangs caused by insufficient memory.
- In multi-numa node system, some nodes shows memory imbalance, and close to full memory usage.
- Excessive swapping observed in a multi-numa environment.
- Why SWAP was used up and
pgscand/sspiked as found in sar log?
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 and above
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