Great article Andrew. Regarding the blog that you mentioned that says AMM is compatible with HugePages , could you provide a URL? As far as I know, and from what is officially published (Metalink, docs) AMM and HugePages are simply incompatible. NOTE:749851.1<https://supporthtml.oracle.com/epmos/faces/ui/km/DocumentDisplay.jspx?idt9851.1>- HugePages and Oracle Database 11g Automatic Memory Management (AMM) on Linux Oracle® Database Administrator's Reference - G.2.3 Restrictions for HugePages Configurations http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B28359_01/server.111/b32009/appi_vlm.htm#CACDBJGC Other useful Metalink Notes covering HugePages topic: NOTE:361468.1<https://supporthtml.oracle.com/epmos/faces/ui/km/DocumentDisplay.jspx?id61468.1>- HugePages on Oracle Linux 64-bit NOTE:361323.1<https://supporthtml.oracle.com/epmos/faces/ui/km/DocumentDisplay.jspx?id61323.1>- HugePages on Linux: What It Is... and What It Is Not... ~Mihajlo On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Andrew Kerber <andrew.kerber@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > All- > I put up a new blog entry on enabling hugepages in Linux. I put it > together after discovering that there doesn't seem to be a single location > with all the steps, including both the Linux os settings and the database > settings. > Your comments are appreciated. > > http://dbakerber.wordpress.com/ > > > > -- > Andrew W. Kerber > > 'If at first you dont succeed, dont take up skydiving.' > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l