[GLLUG] NUMA tools

Richard W.M. Jones rich at annexia.org
Sat Jul 20 15:02:08 UTC 2013


On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 11:09:00AM +0000, Hearns, John wrote:
> I've been rattling on about NUMA machines this morning.
> 
> It is worth noting that many modern  workstations and servers are NUMA architecture these days - we commonly have multicore, multisocket nodes
> which have RAM banks associated with a particular processor.
> 
> If you haven't already done it, it is well worth installing the numactl and    libnuma  packages and using  numactl -hardware
> to show the layout of your server in NUMA terms.

hwloc-ls (a.k.a. lstopo) is cooler!

Rich.

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Richard Jones
Red Hat




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