My mistake, you are correct that I forgot the second command. The new tldr is: numactl --interleave=all /path/to/daemon; echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/zone_reclaim_mod

My mistake, you are correct that I forgot the second command. The new tldr is: numactl --interleave=all /path/to/daemon; echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/zone_reclaim_mode This file helps explain the different ways one can tweak memory with Linux: http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt