Here is the script to calculate hugepages for oracle db
#!/bin/bash
#
# hugepages_settings.sh
#
# Linux bash script to compute values for the
# recommended HugePages/HugeTLB configuration
#
# Note: This script does calculation for all shared memory
# segments available when the script is run, no matter if it
# is an Oracle RDBMS shared memory segment or not.# Check for the kernel version
KERN=`uname -r | awk -F. ‘{ printf("%d.%dn",$1,$2); }’`# Find out the HugePage size
HPG_SZ=`grep Hugepagesize /proc/meminfo | awk ‘{print $2}’`# Start from 1 pages to be on the safe side and guarantee 1 free HugePage
NUM_PG=1# Cumulative number of pages required to handle the running shared memory segments
for SEG_BYTES in `ipcs -m | awk ‘{print $5}’ | grep "[0-9][0-9]*"`
do
MIN_PG=`echo "$SEG_BYTES/($HPG_SZ*1024)" | bc -q`
if [ $MIN_PG -gt 0 ]; then
NUM_PG=`echo "$NUM_PG+$MIN_PG+1" | bc -q`
fi
done# Finish with results
case $KERN in
‘2.4’) HUGETLB_POOL=`echo "$NUM_PG*$HPG_SZ/1024" | bc -q`;
echo "Recommended setting: vm.hugetlb_pool = $HUGETLB_POOL" ;;
‘2.6’) echo "Recommended setting: vm.nr_hugepages = $NUM_PG" ;;
*) echo "Unrecognized kernel version $KERN. Exiting." ;;
esac# End