{"id":10993,"date":"2018-02-25T10:29:44","date_gmt":"2018-02-25T09:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/configuring-huge-pages-for-your-postgresql-instance-redhatcentos-version\/"},"modified":"2018-02-25T10:29:44","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T09:29:44","slug":"configuring-huge-pages-for-your-postgresql-instance-redhatcentos-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/configuring-huge-pages-for-your-postgresql-instance-redhatcentos-version\/","title":{"rendered":"Configuring huge pages for your PostgreSQL instance, RedHat\/CentOS version"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost every PostgreSQL I get in touch with is not configured to use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kernel.org\/doc\/Documentation\/vm\/hugetlbpage.txt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">huge pages<\/a>, which is quite a surprise as it can give you a performance boost. Actually it is not the PostgreSQL instance you need to configure but the operating system to provide that. PostgreSQL will use huge pages by default when they are configured and will fall back to normal pages otherwise. The parameter which controls that in PostgreSQL is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postgresql.org\/docs\/current\/static\/runtime-config-resource.html#GUC-HUGE-PAGES\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">huge_pages<\/a> which defaults to &#8220;try&#8221; leading to the behavior just described: Try to get them, otherwise use normal pages. Lets see how you can do that on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redhat.com\/en\/technologies\/linux-platforms\/enterprise-linux\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RedHat<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.centos.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CentOS<\/a>. I&#8217;ll write another post about how you do that for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.debian.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Debian<\/a> based distributions shortly.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>What you need to know is that RedHat as well as CentOS come with <a href=\"https:\/\/access.redhat.com\/documentation\/en-us\/red_hat_enterprise_linux\/7\/html-single\/performance_tuning_guide\/index#chap-Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-Performance_Tuning_Guide-Tuned\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tuned<\/a> profiles by default. This means kernel parameters and other settings are managed through profiles dynamically and not anymore by adjusting <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sysctl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\/etc\/sysctl<\/a> (although that works as well). When you are in virtualized environment (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.virtualbox.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VirtualBox<\/a> in my case) you probably will see something like this:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: bash; gutter: true; first-line: 1\">\npostgres@pgbox:\/home\/postgres\/ [PG10] tuned-adm active\nCurrent active profile: virtual-guest\n<\/pre>\n<p>Virtual guest is maybe not the best solution for database server as it comes with those settings (especially vm.dirty_ratio and vm.swappiness):<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: bash; gutter: true; first-line: 1\">\npostgres@pgbox:\/home\/postgres\/ [PG10] cat \/usr\/lib\/tuned\/virtual-guest\/tuned.conf  | egrep -v \"^$|^#\"\n[main]\nsummary=Optimize for running inside a virtual guest\ninclude=throughput-performance\n[sysctl]\nvm.dirty_ratio = 30\nvm.swappiness = 30\n<\/pre>\n<p>What we do at dbi services is to provide our own profile which adjusts the settings better suited for a database server.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: bash; gutter: true; first-line: 1\">\npostgres@pgbox:\/home\/postgres\/ [PG10]  cat \/etc\/tuned\/dbi-postgres\/tuned.conf | egrep -v \"^$|^#\"\n[main]\nsummary=dbi services tuned profile for PostgreSQL servers\n[cpu]\ngovernor=performance\nenergy_perf_bias=performance\nmin_perf_pct=100\n[disk]\nreadahead=&gt;4096\n[sysctl]\nvm.overcommit_memory=2\nvm.swappiness=0\nvm.dirty_ratio=2\nvm.dirty_background_ratio=1\n<\/pre>\n<p>What has all this to do with larges pages you might think. Well, tuning profiles can also be used to configure them and for us this is the preferred method because we can do it all in one file. But we before we do that lets look at the PostgreSQL instance:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: sql; gutter: true; first-line: 1\">\npostgres=# select version();\n                                                          version                                                           \n----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n PostgreSQL 10.0 build on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (GCC) 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-16), 64-bit\n(1 row)\n\npostgres=# show huge_pages;\n huge_pages \n------------\n try\n(1 row)\n<\/pre>\n<p>As said at the beginning of this post the default behavior of PostgreSQL is to use them if available. The question now is: How can you check if you have huge pages configured on the operating system level? The answer is in the virtual \/proc\/meminfo file:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: sql; gutter: true; first-line: 1\">\npostgres=# ! cat \/proc\/meminfo | grep -i huge\nAnonHugePages:      6144 kB\nHugePages_Total:       0\nHugePages_Free:        0\nHugePages_Rsvd:        0\nHugePages_Surp:        0\nHugepagesize:       2048 kB\n<\/pre>\n<p>Alle &#8220;HugePages&#8221; statistics report a zero so this system definitely is not configured to provide huge pages to PostgreSQL. AnonHugePages is for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kernel.org\/doc\/Documentation\/vm\/hugetlbpage.txt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Transparent Hugepage<\/a> and it is common recommendation to disable them for database servers. So we have two tasks to complete:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Disable transparent huge pages<\/li>\n<li>Configure the system to provide enough huge pages for our PostgreSQL instance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For disabling transparent huge pages we just need to add the following lines to our tuning profile:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: sql; gutter: true; first-line: 1\">\npostgres@pgbox:\/home\/postgres\/ [PG10] sudo echo \"[vm]\n&gt; transparent_hugepages=never\" &gt;&gt; \/etc\/tuned\/dbi-postgres\/tuned.conf\n<\/pre>\n<p>When transparent huge pages are enabled you can see that in the following file:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: sql; gutter: true; first-line: 1\">\npostgres@pgbox:\/home\/postgres\/ [PG10] cat \/sys\/kernel\/mm\/transparent_hugepage\/enabled\n[always] madvise never\n<\/pre>\n<p>Once we switch the profile to our own profile:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: bash; gutter: true; first-line: 1\">\npostgres@pgbox:\/home\/postgres\/ [PG10] sudo tuned-adm profile dbi-postgres\npostgres@pgbox:\/home\/postgres\/ [PG10] sudo tuned-adm active\nCurrent active profile: dbi-postgres\n\n<\/pre>\n<p>&#8230; you&#8217;ll notice that it is disabled from now on:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: bash; gutter: true; first-line: 1\">\npostgres@pgbox:\/home\/postgres\/ [PG10] cat \/sys\/kernel\/mm\/transparent_hugepage\/enabled\nalways madvise [never]\n<\/pre>\n<p>Task one completed. For configuring the operating system to provide huge pages for our PostgreSQL we need to know how many huge pages we require. How do we do that? The procedure is documented in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postgresql.org\/docs\/10\/static\/kernel-resources.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PostgreSQL documentation<\/a>. Basically you start your instance and then check how many you would require. In my case, to get the PID of the postmaster process:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: bash; gutter: true; first-line: 1\">\npostgres@pgbox:\/home\/postgres\/ [PG10] head -1 $PGDATA\/postmaster.pid\n1640\n<\/pre>\n<p>To get the <a href=\"http:\/\/man7.org\/linux\/man-pages\/man5\/proc.5.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VmPeak<\/a> for that process:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: bash; gutter: true; first-line: 1\">\npostgres@pgbox:\/home\/postgres\/ [PG10] grep ^VmPeak \/proc\/1640\/status\nVmPeak:\t  344340 kB\n<\/pre>\n<p>As the huge page size is 2MB on my system (which should be default for most systems):<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: bash; gutter: true; first-line: 1\">\npostgres@pgbox:\/home\/postgres\/ [PG10] grep ^Hugepagesize \/proc\/meminfo\nHugepagesize:       2048 kB\n<\/pre>\n<p>&#8230; we will require at least 344340\/2048 huge pages for this PostgreSQL instance:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: bash; gutter: true; first-line: 1\">\npostgres@pgbox:\/home\/postgres\/ [PG10] echo \"344340\/2048\" | bc\n168\n<\/pre>\n<p>All we need to do is to add this to our tuning profile in the &#8220;[sysctl]&#8221; section:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: bash; gutter: true; first-line: 1\">\npostgres@pgbox:\/home\/postgres\/ [PG10] grep nr_hugepages \/etc\/tuned\/dbi-postgres\/tuned.conf \nvm.nr_hugepages=170\n<\/pre>\n<p>Re-set the profile and we&#8217;re done:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: bash; gutter: true; first-line: 1\">\npostgres@pgbox:\/home\/postgres\/ [PG10] sudo tuned-adm profile dbi-postgres\npostgres@pgbox:\/home\/postgres\/ [PG10] cat \/proc\/meminfo | grep -i huge\nAnonHugePages:      4096 kB\nHugePages_Total:     170\nHugePages_Free:      170\nHugePages_Rsvd:        0\nHugePages_Surp:        0\nHugepagesize:       2048 kB\n<\/pre>\n<p>This confirms that we now have 170 huge pages of which all of them are free to consume. Now lets configure PostgreSQL to only start when it can get the amount of huge pages required by switching the &#8220;huge_pages&#8221; parameter to &#8220;on&#8221; and restart the instance:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: sql; gutter: true; first-line: 1; highlight: [1,4]\">\npostgres@pgbox:\/home\/postgres\/ [PG10] psql -c \"alter system set huge_pages=on\" postgres\nALTER SYSTEM\nTime: 0.719 ms\npostgres@pgbox:\/home\/postgres\/ [PG10] pg_ctl -D $PGDATA restart -m fast\nwaiting for server to shut down.... done\nserver stopped\nwaiting for server to start....2018-02-25 11:21:29.107 CET - 1 - 3170 -  - @ LOG:  listening on IPv4 address \"0.0.0.0\", port 5441\n2018-02-25 11:21:29.107 CET - 2 - 3170 -  - @ LOG:  listening on IPv6 address \"::\", port 5441\n2018-02-25 11:21:29.110 CET - 3 - 3170 -  - @ LOG:  listening on Unix socket \"\/tmp\/.s.PGSQL.5441\"\n2018-02-25 11:21:29.118 CET - 4 - 3170 -  - @ LOG:  redirecting log output to logging collector process\n2018-02-25 11:21:29.118 CET - 5 - 3170 -  - @ HINT:  Future log output will appear in directory \"pg_log\".\n done\nserver started\n<\/pre>\n<p>As the instance started all should be fine and we can confirm that by looking at the statistics in \/proc\/meminfo:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: bash; gutter: true; first-line: 1\">\npostgres@pgbox:\/home\/postgres\/ [PG10] cat \/proc\/meminfo | grep -i huge\nAnonHugePages:      4096 kB\nHugePages_Total:     170\nHugePages_Free:      162\nHugePages_Rsvd:       64\nHugePages_Surp:        0\nHugepagesize:       2048 kB\n<\/pre>\n<p>You might be surprised that not all (actually only 8) huge pages are used right now but this will change as soon as you put some load on the system:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: sql; gutter: true; first-line: 1\">\npostgres=# create table t1 as select * from generate_series(1,1000000);\nSELECT 1000000\npostgres=# select count(*) from t1;\n  count  \n---------\n 1000000\n(1 row)\n\npostgres=# ! cat \/proc\/meminfo | grep -i huge\nAnonHugePages:      4096 kB\nHugePages_Total:     170\nHugePages_Free:      153\nHugePages_Rsvd:       55\nHugePages_Surp:        0\nHugepagesize:       2048 kB\npostgres=# \n<\/pre>\n<p>Hope this helps &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost every PostgreSQL I get in touch with is not configured to use huge pages, which is quite a surprise as it can give you a performance boost. 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