How to fix «/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled is 'always'. We suggest setting it to 'never'» for MongoDB?

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Step 1

I created /etc/init.d/disable-transparent-hugepages:

#!/bin/bash
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          disable-transparent-hugepages
# Required-Start:    $local_fs
# Required-Stop:
# X-Start-Before:    mongod mongodb-mms-automation-agent
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: Disable Linux transparent huge pages
# Description:       Disable Linux transparent huge pages, to improve
#                    database performance.
### END INIT INFO
# 2020-01-06 Dmitry Fedyuk
# "How to fix «/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled is 'always'.
# We suggest setting it to 'never'» for MongoDB?" https://df.tips/t/965

case $1 in
  start)
    thp_path=/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage
    echo 'never' | tee ${thp_path}/enabled > /dev/null
    echo 'never' | tee ${thp_path}/defrag > /dev/null
    unset thp_path
    ;;
esac

Step 2

chmod 755 /etc/init.d/disable-transparent-hugepages
update-rc.d disable-transparent-hugepages defaults
reboot

docs.mongodb.com/v4.2/tutorial/transparent-huge-pages