关于Linux transparent huge pages are enabled

最近去给一个用户做数据库巡检，使用orachk做检查，发现在报告中有

WARNING

OS Check

Linux transparent huge pages are enabled

报告中指出建议禁用该特性，对于oracle数据库运行在sles11，rhel6或者oracle linux6上，均建议禁用，按照官方说法，可能导致节点重启或者性能问题
Starting with SLES11, RHEL6,  OL6 and UEK2 Kernels, Transparent HugePages are introduced and enabled by default, and this can cause node reboots and performance problems.
关于如何禁用THP的方式参考：

• Note: 1557478.1 - RAC - Disable Transparent HugePages on SLES11, RHEL6 and OEL6
  
  

  DESCRIPTION

  Starting with RedHat6, OL6, SLES11 and UEK2 kernels, Transparent HugePages are implemented and enabled (default) in an attempt to improve the memory management.  Transparent HugePages are similar to the HugePages that have been available in previous Linux releases.  The main difference is that the Transparent HugePages are set up dynamically at run time by the khugepaged thread in kernel while the regular HugePages had to be preallocated at the boot up time.

  Because Transparent HugePages are known to cause unexpected node reboots and performance problems with RAC, Oracle strongly advises to disable the use of Transparent HugePages. In addition, Transparent Hugepages may cause problems even in a single-instance database environment with unexpected performance problems or delays. As such, Oracle recommends disabling Transparent HugePages on all Database servers running Oracle.

   

  Note:  This ONLY applies to the new feature Transparent HugePages, Oracle highly recommends the use of standard HugePages that were recommended for previous releases of Linux.  See Document 361323.1 for additional information on HugePages.

   

  OCCURRENCE

   Starting with SLES11, RHEL6,  OL6 and UEK2 Kernels, Transparent HugePages are introduced and enabled by default, and this can cause node reboots and performance problems.

  SYMPTOMS

  Node reboots.

  The ocssd.log may show some of the threads are blocked (but this does not show all the time):

  2013-05-01 14:30:45.255: [    CSSD][224204544]clssscMonitorThreads clssnmvKillBlockThread not scheduled for 7500 msecs
  2013-05-01 14:30:46.945: [    CSSD][224204544]clssscMonitorThreads clssnmvWorkerThread not scheduled for 8030 msecs

   

  WORKAROUND

  The workaround provided here may not work for newer versions of Redhat like Redhat 7 or SLES.  If the following workaround does not work, please contact Redhat or SLES (SUSE) for actual instruction on how to disable the transparent hugepages.
  
  To check if the Transparent HugePages are enabled in your server execute the following:

  Default/Enabled setting is  [always]:

  # cat /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled
  [always] never

   

  Note 1: For RHEL kernel, the file path is different from above:
  

  # cat /sys/kernel/mm/ redhat_transparent_hugepage/enabled
  [always] never

     
  Pleaes modify this file accordingly.
  
  Note 2: For UEK2 kernel, as of 2.6.39-400.116.0 Transparent Hugepages has been removed from the kernel.  If it is not compiled into the kernel then /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage will not exist.

  
   Disabled setting is [never]:

  # cat /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled
  always [never]

  If "enabled" is NOT set to "[never]", the Transparent HugePages are being used.

  You can also issue:

  # grep AnonHugePages /proc/meminfo

  If the output contains a line like "AnonHugepages: xxxx kB", with a value > 0kB, the kernel is using Transparent HugePages.

  Because the kernel currently uses Transparent HugePages only for the anonymous memory blocks like stack and heap, the value of AnonHugepages in /proc/meminfo is the current amount of Transparent HugePages that the kernel is using.

  
  

  禁用THP的方法如下，两种方案：

  To disable Transparent HugePages boot time either one of the following 2 methods may be used:

  
  

   

  Add the following to the kernel boot line in /etc/grub.conf (a symlink to /boot/grub/grub.conf) and reboot the server (this is the preferred method):

  transparent_hugepage=never

  Once modified the line will read similar to the following example:

  title Oracle Linux Server (2.6.32-300.25.1.el6uek.x86_64)
          root (hd0,0)
           kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-300.25.1.el6uek.x86_64 ro root=LABEL=/ transparent_hugepage=never
          initrd /initramfs-2.6.32-300.25.1.el6uek.x86_64.img
  
  

  OR

  Add the following lines in /etc/rc.local and reboot the server (this still can be done on Redhat 7 although rc.local is being deprecated):

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

   Please change the file path for RHEL kernel to /sys/kernel/mm/redhat_transparent_hugepage/ accordingly.

   

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