June 2017
Intermediate to advanced
340 pages
8h 22m
English
In this recipe, we saw examples on how to manually assign a KVM process to a NUMA node by editing the XML definition of the guest. Some Linux distributions such as RHEL/CentOS 7 and Ubuntu 16.04 provide the numad (NUMA daemon) service, which aims at automatically balancing processes between NUMA nodes by monitoring the current memory topology:
root@kvm:~# lsb_release -aNo LSB modules are available.Distributor ID: UbuntuDescription: Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTSRelease: 16.04Codename: xenialroot@kvm2:~# apt install numad...root@kvm:~#
root@kvm:~# service numad startroot@kvm2:~# pgrep -lfa numad12601 /usr/bin/numad -i 15root@kvm:~#
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