They're not the only ones running into issues with TPH and numa. For more suggestions to reduce jitter on Linux see Gil Tene's (Azul) advice: http://highscalabi

They're not the only ones running into issues with TPH and numa. For more suggestions to reduce jitter on Linux see Gil Tene's (Azul) advice: http://highscalability.com/blog/2015/4/8/the-black-magic-of-systematically-reducing-linux-os-jitter.html http://highscalability.com/blog/2015/4/8/the-black-magic-of-... Namely: - Turn THP (Transparent Huge Pages) OFF. - Set vm.min_free_kbytes to AT LEAST 1GB (8GB on larger systems). - Set Swappiness to 0. - Set zone_reclaim_mode to 0.