Linux Scalability in a NUMA World (Linux Magazine)

[Posted September 15, 2008 by jake]

Linux Magazine looks at Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) systems and Linux. It describes how to determine the NUMA topology and then how to tell Linux how to best use the processors based on the workload. "The overall performance of a NUMA system depends on the proportion of memory accesses made by all processors to local (directly connected) memory. Each access a task makes to remote memory reduces the performance of that task. It may also reduce the performance of other tasks, by causing contention for remote memory connections."

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Posted Sep 17, 2008 11:07 UTC (Wed) by ldo (subscriber, #40946) [Link]

It appears that Linux Magazine have a habit of hiding older articles behind a paywall. This means that someone coming across your item in a few months may find themselves unable to follow the link.