11g AMM tmpfs vs hugepages for best overall performance

  • From: "Crisler, Jon" <Jon.Crisler@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:56:36 -0400

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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