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this is a recommended setting even on Oracle [1] [2] and Couchbase [3]

the doc recommends adding "transparent_hugepage=never" to the kernel boot line in the "/etc/grub.conf" file.

[1] http://oracle-base.com/articles/linux/configuring-huge-pages...

[2] https://support.oracle.com/epmos/faces/DocContentDisplay?id=...

[3] http://blog.couchbase.com/often-overlooked-linux-os-tweaks




Yes, never reported by Redis users so far, maybe since in Redis it does not have the same impact it has in other databases, but a more subtle latency issue apparently.

EDIT: Actually in the CouchBase case they talk about "page allocation delays" that looks related, potentially. I started the investigation mainly because the Stripe graph looked suspicious with a modern EC2 instance type that has good fork times, so there was something more indeed (unless the test was performed with tens of GB of data).




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