Trying HugePages In MySQL Causes Error (Doc ID 1954319.1)

Last updated on MAY 30, 2023

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Goal

You want to use Huge Pages for the InnoDB buffer pool, you have followed the directions and allocated enough pages, but you still get the following error from InnoDB:

2014-12-12 17:35:29 26035 [Note] InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 1.0G
InnoDB: HugeTLB: Warning: Failed to allocate 138412032 bytes. errno 12
InnoDB HugeTLB: Warning: Using conventional memory pool
 

Solution

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