Re: Transparent HugePages causing crashes?

From: John Hurley <hurleyjohnb_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 11:29:45 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <1370543385.61185.YahooMailClassic_at_web181202.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>



Classic oracle support information here ... they give a fix that refers to a directory that does not exist. Who would QA a support alert?

First the directory ( on 6.4 anyhow ) is /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage NOT ( ... hugepages ).

Plus they do not note that directory name is also different between release levels ( 6.2 versus 6.4 ) etc.

Caveat emptor.

if test -f /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepages/enabled; then

   echo never > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepages/enabled fi
if test -f /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepages/defrag; then

   echo never > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepages/defrag fi

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Received on Thu Jun 06 2013 - 20:29:45 CEST

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