RE: 11g AMM tmpfs vs hugepages for best overall performance

  • From: "Crisler, Jon" <Jon.Crisler@xxxxxxx>
  • To: "D'Hooge Freek" <Freek.DHooge@xxxxxxxxx>, <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:51:47 -0400

Thanks- I saw this blog, but he does not have any performance conclusions on 
hugepages vs. 11g AMM for larger systems.  On smaller, 32 bit systems there was 
no clear winner.

-----Original Message-----
From: D'Hooge Freek [mailto:Freek.DHooge@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 12:11 PM
To: Crisler, Jon; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: 11g AMM tmpfs vs hugepages for best overall performance 

Jon,

Yes, you can still pick between AMM and "normal" memory parameters.
For the comparison, I suggest you look at the following blogpost of Kevin 
Closson: 
http://kevinclosson.wordpress.com/2007/08/23/oracle11g-automatic-memory-management-and-linux-hugepages-support/


Regards,


Freek D'Hooge
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From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Crisler, Jon
Sent: woensdag 21 juli 2010 18:03
To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: 11g AMM tmpfs vs hugepages for best overall performance 

And a follow up question- if I implement a large /tmpfs - shm, I can still use 
choose to not use AMM and use hugepages, correct ?

From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Crisler, Jon
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 11:57 AM
To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: 11g AMM tmpfs vs hugepages for best overall performance 

Which is better for performance on large Red Hat 5 systems (64gb+ memory, 8+ 
cpu's) -  using 10g style shm settings and hugepages, OR the newer 11g 
Automatic Memory Manager (which does not support hugepages).

The system I am building is a 6 node 11g R1 RAC, memory somewhere between 64gb 
and 256gb (not sure yet), 8 cpu per node.  This machine will support a huge 
workload.
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