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  1. Documentation
  2. DOCS-6672

Add prodnotes recommendation to tune vm.min_free_kbytes on older Linux kernels

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      mongod has been observed to experience stalls under some workloads when running on older Linux kernels (3.2.0), on large RAM systems (~60GB or higher), with default vm.min_free_kbytes (66MB) (or less).

      If these older kernels need to be used on large memory systems, vm.min_free_kbytes should be tuned to 128MB or higher.

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            andrew.aldridge@mongodb.com Andrew Aldridge
            kevin.pulo@mongodb.com Kevin Pulo
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              8 years, 11 weeks, 2 days ago