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Anther good article is https://kevinclosson.wordpress.com/2009/05/14/you-buy-a-numa-system-oracle-says-disable-numa-what-gives-part-ii/ https://kevinclosson.wordpress.com/2009/05/14/you-buy-a-numa... On commodity servers, unless you have specific reasons to do otherwise just switch from NUMA to SUMA. There are two things yo should do * Change a BIOS setting. The term for this will vary by manufacturer. For Dell, it means enabling node interleaving. * Pass numa=off to the linux kernel (e.g. edit grub.cfg)