How to disable Transparent Huge Pages (THP) in Ubuntu 16.04LTS

Question

I am setting up an ambari cluster with 3 virtualbox VMs running Ubuntu 16.04LTS. However I get the below warning:

The following hosts have Transparent Huge P         


        

Answer 1

Install :

sudo apt install hugepages

Then run :

sudo hugeadm --thp-never

To persist the changes you can add this last command to /etc/rc.local