Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265494AbUFOMxZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jun 2004 08:53:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265499AbUFOMxZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jun 2004 08:53:25 -0400 Received: from hostmaster.org ([212.186.110.32]:54172 "HELO hostmaster.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S265494AbUFOMxY (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jun 2004 08:53:24 -0400 Subject: Re: NUMA API observations From: Thomas Zehetbauer To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20040614153638.GB25389@krispykreme> References: <20040614153638.GB25389@krispykreme> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1087304002.28142.46.camel@hostmaster.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 14:53:22 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 886 Lines: 23 Looking at these numastat results and the default policy it seems that memory is primarily allocated on the first node which in turn means a unnecessarily large amount of page faults on the second node. I wonder if it is possible to better balance processes among the nodes by e.g. setting nodeAffinity = pid mod nodeCount Tom -- T h o m a s Z e h e t b a u e r ( TZ251 ) PGP encrypted mail preferred - KeyID 96FFCB89 finger thomasz@hostmaster.org for key Attempting to apply the OSI layers model to a real network is just like attempting to represent seven dimensions in four dimensional reality. Thomas Zehetbauer - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/