More OS X Tips for Oracle Developers

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HugePages Configuration and Monitoring

I was recently working with a customer who was experiencing some memory pressure on their Linux database server.
They were running Oracle 10.2.0.5 on Oracle Enterprise Server 5.7.
The buffer cache was 50G and they wanted to increase it to about 100G.

Here is what the memory allocation on the machine looked like; 10G in PageTables.
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