Linux huge pages can increase the efficiency of translation lookaside buffer access, improving database performance.
Using huge pages at the operating system level allows for approximately a 10% improvement in Adaptive Server performance; Sybase recommends their use in any 64-bit production system. In larger memory configurations (that is, configurations where Adaptive Server uses more than 256GB RAM), huge pages are required to start Adaptive Server.
Adaptive Server versions 15.0.3 and later support huge pages. By default, huge page support is enabled in VMware ESX versions 3.5 and later.