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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Subject: Re: NUMA page allocation from next Node
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 10:49:15 +0200
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To: Tharindu Rukshan Bamunuarachchi <btharindu@gmail.com>
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On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 12:36:47PM +0530, Tharindu Rukshan Bamunuarachchi wrote:
> What kind of NUMA setting i should look for ? I gather following config values ?

Most likely one of the systems forces zone reclaim by having large
SLIT values and the other doesn't. You can configure zone reclaim
manually through sysctl.

You should not get a lockup though in any case, that's some kind of 
VM bug in 2.6.27. I would recommend reporting that to Novell.

-Andi