I do not claim to be a  Huge Pages expert, but I have been doing some more reading on Transparent Huge pages and the madvise option.  The following is untested and un-verified.

It seem like if you are running Kernel 2.6.38 or newer that you may be able to use the madvise instead of never for the Transparent Huge Pages setting. According to http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man2/madvise.2.html the 2.6.38 kernel’s madvise has a MADV_HUGEPAGE option, that allows applications to enable Transparent Huge pages, If no MADV_* flag is thrown then it defaults to MADV_NORMAL or no special treatment. I believe this means that transparent huge pages should be off by default.  

If you are using RHEL 6 or probably most of its derivatives even though they have a madvise setting for their Transparent Huge pages settings it appears RHEL did not backport the MADV_HUGEPAGE Option to their madvise/Kernel (At least 2.6.32-504.81 and lower), so you have to set the box’s transparent Huge pages to never.   (Man page in RHEL 6 with kernel= 2.6.32-504.8.1 lacking a MADV_HUGEPAGE and https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/tokudb-dev/_1YNBMlHftU Bradly Kuszmaul’s 5/8/13 post.)

RHEL 7 & it’s derivatives are running the 3.X kernel and that man pages show a  MADV_HUGEPAGE option so it looks like you can set the box to madvise and it will not use transparent huge pages.

Once again I am not a Transparent Huge Pages expert and have not done any testing to verify the validity of this.

Of course their is no replacement to actual testing. What I am trying to say is that had I started reading the article  straight through instead of skimming and jumping to the how to check if it was on, I probably would have  read at the top "various Linux distibutions introduced Transparent HugePages with the 2.6.38 kernel' and stopped because my kernel is less than that.  I really  think that the current wording will lead people whom work at shops that are still rolling out new builds in RHEL or Centos 6 not to use the ideal settings.     Maybe a complete re-arrange of the first three paragraphs into two or three paragraphs where the RHEL 6,...  might make this clearer.  With a sentence that reads something like, "This was first introduced in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11, and Oracle Linux 6; and then later introduced in may other Linux variants with the 2.6.38 kernel.

Additionally it might make things clearer if you where to mention that for It's setting the item in brackets is what is the current setting as in my redhat the lines reads .   [always] madvise never.

It might also be useful to people on this to mention what to do in the case where the transparent Huge pages enabled is set to madvise .    

Delivery of Notifications from yes to no doesn't sound like it is really and option for me.  I would like to receive notifications in regards to articles I have commented on and or posted.

In looking at these instructions it seems as if I may be receiving all kinds of notifications possibly due to A Restricted category group.

I tried going to a message (For istance https://community.intersystems.com/post/whats-best-way-doing-reports-zen-mojo )has 10 tags in it and when I click on each tag they all have  something like "Subscribe to $tagname with RSS or email." Non of them seem to have an unsubscribe option.  (I even tried clicking on the email subscribe button for cache but that ended up adding it to the Current subscriptions: Tags section. I have removed it from tags.  

1. How can I figure out which restricted group categories I am in?

2. How do you actually unsubscribe from those categories.

I think further clarification is also needed, You mention that various Linux distributions introduce this with the 2.6.38 Kernel. However this starts with RHEL 6.0/Centos 6 .0 General Availability release. 6.8 is currently only kernel 2.6.32-642 and it has this available in it. Additional information about it's availability in version 6.0 can be found in the RHEl slideshow page 2  http://www.slideshare.net/raghusiddarth/transparent-hugepages-in-rhel-6 and on page 102 of the redhat 6.0 technical documentation https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/pdf/6.0_Technical_Notes/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-6-6.0_Technical_Notes-en-US.pdf .  I have not researched when this was rolled into fedora prior to 2.6.38  but as fedora tends to be a precursor to RHEL, it might also have been before kernel 2.6.38.

It might be better to suggest that people run the check to see if it is enabled or not and that they should not be surprised if they are running a Linux with a kernel less than 2.6.38that does not support it.