Bug 987559

Summary:	Allow NUMAD to change hugepage scan_sleep_millisecs parameter
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Bill Gray <bgray>
Component:	numad	Assignee:	Bill Gray <bgray>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	qe-baseos-daemons
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6.4	CC:	azelinka, bgray, jsynacek, ldomb, perfbz
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	6.5
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OS:	Linux
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Description Bill Gray 2013-07-23 16:18:00 UTC

People ignore the instruction to change hugepage scan_sleep_millisecs parameter and this hurts NUMA performance when process memory is migrated across nodes.  Planned solution is for numad to simply set the parameter directly.

Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2013-07-23 17:51:49 UTC

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux release.  Product
Management has requested further review of this request by
Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red Hat
Enterprise Linux release for currently deployed products.
This request is not yet committed for inclusion in a release.

Comment 12 ldomb 2013-10-02 12:53:30 UTC

*** Bug 1011018 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2013-11-21 23:30:09 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2013-1705.html