HugePage Settings.

Create a shell hugepagesCalculation.sh

chmod 775 hugepagesCalculation.sh

./hugepagesCalculation.sh

#!/bin/bash

# hugepagesCalculation.sh

# Linux bash script to compute values for the

# recommended HugePages/HugeTLB configuration

# Note: This script does calculation for all shared memory

# segments available when the script is run, no matter it

# is an Oracle RDBMS shared memory segment or not.

# Check for the kernel version

KERN=`uname -r | awk -F. '{ printf("%d.%d\n",$1,$2); }'`

# Find out the HugePage size

HPG_SZ=`grep Hugepagesize /proc/meminfo | awk {'print $2'}`

# Start from 1 pages to be on the safe side and guarantee 1 free HugePage

NUM_PG=1

# Cumulative number of pages required to handle the running shared memory segments

for SEG_BYTES in `ipcs -m | awk {'print $5'} | grep "[0-9][0-9]*"`

MIN_PG=`echo "$SEG_BYTES/($HPG_SZ*1024)" | bc -q`

if [ $MIN_PG -gt 0 ]; then

NUM_PG=`echo "$NUM_PG+$MIN_PG+1" | bc -q`

done

# Finish with results

case $KERN in

'2.4') HUGETLB_POOL=`echo "$NUM_PG*$HPG_SZ/1024" | bc -q`;

echo "Recommended setting: vm.hugetlb_pool = $HUGETLB_POOL" ;;

'2.6' | '3.8' | '3.10' | '4.1' | '4.14' ) echo "Recommended setting: vm.nr_hugepages = $NUM_PG" ;;

*) echo "Unrecognized kernel version $KERN. Exiting." ;;

esac

# End

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