Performance issue with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

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Summary

Problem

Bamboo server is showing high CPU usage intermittently. During such event of spike, Bamboo is inaccessible.

Diagnosis

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 and above

  • Oracle Linux

Cause

https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/entry/performance_issues_with_transparent_huge

Solution

Resolution

Disable Transparent Huge Pages (THP) by appending the following to grub.conf and perform a restart:

1 transparent_hugepage=never

https://access.redhat.com/solutions/46111

Updated on April 2, 2025

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