How to avoid transparent_hugepage/defrag warning from mongodb?

Question

I'm receiving the following warning from mongodb about THP

2015-03-06T21:01:15.526-0800 I CONTROL  [initandlisten] ** WARNING: /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag is 'always'. 2015-03-06T21:01:15.526-0800 I CONTROL  [initandlisten] **        We suggest setting it to 'never' 

But I did manage to turned THP off manually

frederick@UbuntuVirtual:~$ cat /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled always madvise [never] frederick@UbuntuVirtual:~$ cat /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag always madvise [never] 

I did the trick by adding transparent_hugepage=never to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT in /etc/default/grub and adding

if test -f /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag; then    echo never > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag fi 

to /etc/rc.local

How on earth can I avoid the warning?

Answer 1

Official MongoDB documentation gives several solutions for this issue. You can also try this solution, which worked for me:

Note: Try official documentation directives if MongoDB version is greater than 3.0

1. Open /etc/init.d/mongod file.
   (if no such file you might check /etc/init.d/mongod, /etc/init/mongod.conf files - credit: the below comments)

2. Add the lines below immediately after chown $DAEMONUSER /var/run/mongodb.pid and before end script.

3. Restart mongod (service mongod restart).

Here are the lines to add to /etc/init.d/mongod:

if test -f /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled; then    echo never > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled fi if test -f /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag; then    echo never > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag fi 

That's it!

Answer 2

MongoDB have updated their recommendation to use an init.d script now: http://docs.mongodb.org/master/tutorial/transparent-huge-pages/