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Disabling Transparent Huge Pages

Purpose

Disable Transparent Huge Pages (THP) to mitigate system performance degradation caused by memory leaks.

Procedure

Run the following commands to disable THP:

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