Merge pull request #67768 from peti/t/redis

nixos/redis: disable transparent huge pages (TLP) before starting Redis
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Peter Simons 2019-09-01 08:49:25 +02:00 committed by GitHub
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@ -40,7 +40,12 @@ in
enable = mkOption {
type = types.bool;
default = false;
description = "Whether to enable the Redis server.";
description = ''
Whether to enable the Redis server. Note that the NixOS module for
Redis disables kernel support for Transparent Huge Pages (THP),
because this features causes major performance problems for Redis,
e.g. (https://redis.io/topics/latency).
'';
};
package = mkOption {
@ -224,6 +229,16 @@ in
environment.systemPackages = [ cfg.package ];
systemd.services.disable-transparent-huge-pages = {
enable = config.services.redis.enable;
description = "Disable Transparent Huge Pages (required by Redis)";
after = [ "sysinit.target" "local-fs.target" ];
before = [ "redis.service" ];
wantedBy = [ "redis.service" ];
script = "echo never >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled";
serviceConfig.Type = "oneshot";
};
systemd.services.redis =
{ description = "Redis Server";