Complete Guide: Installing hugepages on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) 2024

1. Install "hugepages" package

This is a short guide on how to install hugepages on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                hugepages
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "hugepages" package

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall hugepages on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                hugepages
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the hugepages package on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

Package: hugepages
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2.19-0ubuntu1
Priority: extra
Section: universe/admin
Source: libhugetlbfs
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Frank Lin PIAT , Vincent Danjean
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 165
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7), libhugetlbfs0 (= 2.19-0ubuntu1)
Suggests: libhugetlbfs-tests
Filename: pool/universe/libh/libhugetlbfs/hugepages_2.19-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Size: 49058
MD5sum: 60d35d878a2952d89ccc4a685c55e7b1
SHA1: 9efade2a4771b440215ca2a400d3b17588097264
SHA256: 27a01032a255bf359f45585efddba7161cf80b67151eaee8a4c06835f2823701
Homepage: http://libhugetlbfs.sourceforge.net/
Description: A set of tools to configure huge pages of memory
Description-md5: c8e1f8022f3e8924a446a9ec0f76c0fc