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17 changes: 10 additions & 7 deletions source/administration/production-checklist-operations.txt
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an optimal value that maximizes the resident memory and lowers the
number of page faults.

- Disable the ``tuned`` tool if you are running RHEL 7 / CentOS 7 in a
virtual environment.

When RHEL 7 / CentOS 7 run in a virtual environment, the ``tuned`` tool
automatically invokes a performance profile derived from
performance throughput, which automatically sets the readahead
settings to 4MB. This can negatively impact performance.
- If using ``tuned`` on RHEL / CentOS, you must customize your
``tuned`` profile. Many of the ``tuned`` profiles that ship with
RHEL / CentOS can negatively impact performance with their default
settings. Customize your chosen ``tuned`` profile to:

- Disable transparent hugepages. See
:ref:`Using tuned and ktune <configure-thp-tuned>` for
instructions.
- Set readahead between 8 and 32 regardless of storage media type.
See :ref:`Readahead settings <readahead>` for more information.

- Use the ``noop`` or ``deadline`` disk schedulers for SSD drives.

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