Hi,
We have performed an update from SLES Ent 11 SP1(x64) to SLES Ent 11 SP2(x64), since this patch we are seeing an increase of the time spend for backing up database.
For instance postgres recommends the following setup for THP:
db1: ~ # echo always > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled
db1: ~ # echo madvise > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag
In Sles11 SP2 release notes in certain type of cases you recomend to disable THP
echo never > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabledCan we safely disable THP or it’s better to run with all services stop?
In case of recommendation is only change madvise to defrag algoritm is safe to run this commands?
What is the recomendation to use THP? Is really an advantage ? Or should be disabled specially in a database environment?
Current THP configuration:
DB1:/ # grep . -r /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/
/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled:[always] madvise never
/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag:[always] madvise never
/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/defrag:1
/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/max_ptes_none:511
/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/pages_to_scan:4096
/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/pages_collapsed:2929
/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/full_scans:1665
/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/scan_sleep_millisecs:10000
/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/alloc_sleep_millisecs:60000
Memory Information:
DB1:/ # cat /proc/`pgrep khugepaged`/io
rchar: 0
wchar: 0
syscr: 0
syscw: 0
read_bytes: 0
write_bytes: 54968320
cancelled_write_bytes: 0
DB1:/ # cat /proc/meminfo | grep HugePages
AnonHugePages: 661504 kB
HugePages_Total: 0
HugePages_Free: 0
HugePages_Rsvd: 0
HugePages_Surp: 0
DB1:/ # cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 99193492 kB
MemFree: 380572 kB
Buffers: 1653360 kB
Cached: 91328156 kB
SwapCached: 3164 kB
Active: 51591364 kB
Inactive: 42169564 kB
Active(anon): 10819624 kB
Inactive(anon): 1358628 kB
Active(file): 40771740 kB
Inactive(file): 40810936 kB
Unevictable: 4892 kB
Mlocked: 4892 kB
SwapTotal: 2104508 kB
SwapFree: 2090728 kB
Dirty: 1908 kB
Writeback: 0 kB
AnonPages: 781640 kB
Mapped: 11430844 kB
Shmem: 11395772 kB
Slab: 3774012 kB
SReclaimable: 3669088 kB
SUnreclaim: 104924 kB
KernelStack: 7832 kB
PageTables: 184756 kB
NFS_Unstable: 0 kB
Bounce: 0 kB
WritebackTmp: 0 kB
CommitLimit: 51701252 kB
Committed_AS: 28514972 kB
VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB
VmallocUsed: 759668 kB
VmallocChunk: 34308578336 kB
HardwareCorrupted: 0 kB
AnonHugePages: 661504 kB
HugePages_Total: 0
HugePages_Free: 0
HugePages_Rsvd: 0
HugePages_Surp: 0
Hugepagesize: 2048 kB
DirectMap4k: 159744 kB
DirectMap2M: 5074944 kB
DirectMap1G: 95420416 kB
Thank you in advanced.
Best Regards,
Sérgio Machado