Good morning, Thanks for the clarification. Yes sure, below please find the requested output. If you prefer I can open a JIRA ticket to facilitate tracking. $ cat /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages 512 $ uname -a Linux srv1 3.10.0-862.11.6.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Aug 10 16:55:11 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ grep ^Huge /proc/meminfo HugePages_Total: 512 HugePages_Free: 467 HugePages_Rsvd: 167 HugePages_Surp: 0 Hugepagesize: 2048 kB $ grep mysql /etc/security/limits.conf mysql soft memlock 2621440 mysql hard memlock 2621440 $ grep AnonHugePages /proc/meminfo AnonHugePages: 6144 kB $ cat /etc/sysctl.d/99-mysql.conf vm.hugetlb_shm_group = 27 vm.nr_hugepages = 512 vm.swappiness = 10 fs.aio-max-nr = 500000 $ I have also added, "LimitMEMLOCK=2147483648" in systemd file. Kenneth On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 1:01 AM Daniel Black <daniel@linux.ibm.com> wrote:

On Tue, 25 Sep 2018 10:48:01 +0200 Kenneth Penza <kpenza@gmail.com> wrote:

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Good morning,

Good morning,

Thanks for the detailed bug report. As the contributor of this feature I'm happy to try to work this out. First I'll reassure you that the WARNING is simply that, there's no negative impacts form this apart from any unexpected core dump will include the large pages as it failed to to mark them as don't dump.

A couple of small clarifying questions to start:

Do you have THP enabled? $ cat /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages

What kernel version / architecture? $ uname -a

What huge page size / current allocation is available?

$ grep ^Huge /proc/meminfo

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I am currently running RHEL 7.5 and MariaDB 10.3.9. After setting "large_pages=on" I noticed that MariaDB is reporting an error on startup and shutdown as per below output.

To use large pages I modified /etc/sysctl.conf, /etc/security/limits.conf and the systemd unit file. By monitoring /proc/meminfo I verified that largepage are being used.

Configuration:

mysqld would have been started with the following arguments: --port=3306 --socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock --thread_stack=256K --large_pages=on --key_buffer_size=16K --max_allowed_packet=512M --table_open_cache=32 --sort_buffer_size=512K --net_buffer_length=8K --read_buffer_size=256K --read_rnd_buffer_size=256K --slow_query_log=1 --slow_query_log_file=mysql-slow.log --long_query_time=0.1 --log-queries-not-using-indexes=on --thread_handling=pool-of-threads --thread_pool_idle_timeout=60 --thread_pool_max_threads=1000 --thread_pool_size=8 --innodb_buffer_pool_size=256M --innodb_strict_mode=1 --innodb_file_per_table=1 --innodb_flush_method=O_DIRECT --innodb_log_files_in_group=4 --innodb_log_file_size=50331648 --innodb_undo_logs=128 --innodb_undo_tablespaces=8 --slow_query_log=1 --slow_query_log_file=mysql-slow.log --long_query_time=30 --log-queries-not-using-indexes=off --log_bin=mariadblog --binlog_format=ROW --binlog_row_image=MINIMAL --max_binlog_size=10240000 --expire_logs_days=1 --server-id=1 --innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit=1 --sync_binlog=1 --relay-log=mariadb-relay-bin --performance_schema=off --histogram_size=255 --histogram_type=SINGLE_PREC_HB --use_stat_tables=preferably --optimizer_use_condition_selectivity=4

Startup messages:

Sep 25 10:40:53 srv1 mysqld: 2018-09-25 10:40:52 0 [Note] InnoDB: Opened 8 undo tablespaces Sep 25 10:40:53 srv1 mysqld: 2018-09-25 10:40:53 0 [Warning] InnoDB: Failed to set memory to DODUMP: Invalid argument ptr 0x2aaac5400000 size 2097152 Sep 25 10:40:53 srv1 mysqld: 2018-09-25 10:40:53 0 [Note] InnoDB: 128 out of 128 rollback segments in 8 undo tablespaces are active.

Shutdown messages:

Sep 25 10:41:18 srv1 mysqld: 2018-09-25 10:41:18 0 [Note] InnoDB: Buffer pool(s) dump completed at 180925 10:41:18 Sep 25 10:41:19 srv1 mysqld: 2018-09-25 10:41:19 0 [Warning] InnoDB: Failed to set memory to DODUMP: Invalid argument ptr 0x2aaac3400000 size 33554432 Sep 25 10:41:19 srv1 mysqld: 2018-09-25 10:41:19 0 [Note] InnoDB: Shutdown completed; log sequence number 1522725; transaction id 22

Do you have ideas on what is causing "InnoDB: Failed to set memory to DODUMP: Invalid argument ptr .. " warning?

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Kenneth