Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 4 Sep 2003 14:30:43 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: Scaling noise |
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On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 04:36:56PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote: > You'll end up with half your accesses being 15 times as > slow, meaning that your average memory access time is 8 > times as high! Good way to REDUCE performance, but most > people won't like that... > If the NUMA factor is low enough that applications can > treat it like SMP, then the kernel NUMA support won't > have to be very high either...
This does not hold. The data set is not necessarily where the communication occurs.
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