August 2016
Intermediate to advanced
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Before we start tuning CPU and memory for NUMA-capable systems, let's see what NUMA is and how it works.
NUMA is an abbreviation for Non Uniform Memory Access:

Figure 25: Reference from Wikipedia
Think about NUMA as a system where you have more than one system bus, each serving a small set of processors and associated memory. Each group of processors has its own memory and possibly its own I/O channels. It may not possible to stop or prevent access across these groups. Each of these groups is known as a NUMA node.
In this concept, if a process/thread is running on a NUMA node, the memory on the same node ...
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