Re: NUMA or not on dual Opteron

Bernd Eckenfels
2005-01-13T21:30:31Z

In article <20050113094537.GB2547@favonius> you wrote:
> I was under the impression that NUMA is useful on > 2-way systems only.
> Is this true, and if not, under what circumstances is NUMA useful on
> 2-way Opteron systems?

NUMA is good for all situations where you have more than one CPU and the
CPUs have different access speeds for some parts of the memory (i.e. cpu
local memory). This is true for SMP Opterons, not for the usual Intel
Boards.

Greetings
Bernd
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