Is there a tuned profile available for Oracle RDBMS?

Environment

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6, 7, 8, 9
• tuned-profiles-oracle
• tuned

Issue

• Is there a tuned profile available for Oracle RDBMS?
• What is the use of tuned-profiles-oracle package?
• How to enabled tuned profile oracle?

Resolution

• The package tuned-profiles-oracle provides tuned profile oracle.

# rpm -ql tuned-profiles-oracle 
/usr/lib/tuned/oracle
/usr/lib/tuned/oracle/tuned.conf
/usr/share/man/man7/tuned-profiles-oracle.7.gz

• Tuned profile oracle is optimize for Oracle RDBMS.

# tuned-adm list | grep oracle
- oracle                      - Optimize for Oracle RDBMS

To enable the tuned profile for Oracle RDBMS, install the tuned-profiles-oracle package.

• After installing it, you should enable tuned oracle profile.

# tuned-adm profile oracle

• Verify the currently active profile

# tuned-adm active
Current active profile: oracle

# tuned-adm verify
Verification succeeded, current system settings match the preset profile.
See tuned log file ('/var/log/tuned/tuned.log') for details.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6:

• The package tuned-profiles-oracle is available in repository: rhel-6-server-optional-rpms

# subscription-manager repos --enable=rhel-6-server-optional-rpms 
# yum install tuned-profiles-oracle

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7:

• The package tuned-profiles-oracle is available in repository: rhel-7-server-optional-rpms

# subscription-manager repos --enable=rhel-7-server-optional-rpms 
# yum install tuned-profiles-oracle

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8:

• The package tuned-profiles-oracle is available in repository: rhel-8-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms

# subscription-manager repos --enable=rhel-8-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms
# yum install tuned-profiles-oracle

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9:

• The package tuned-profiles-oracle is available in repository: rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms

# subscription-manager repos --enable=rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms
# dnf install tuned-profiles-oracle

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