Disabling Transparent Hugepages

Purpose

Disable transparent hugepages to prevent memory leak and reduce lag.

Procedure

1. Disable transparent hugepages.

   1 2	echo never > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled echo never > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag

2. Check whether the transparent hugepages feature is disabled.

   1	cat /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled

   The operation is successful if the status is changed from always to never.