>> understood, but how did you decide that was actually a good thing? >> > Mark, > > Because it stopped the random out of memory conditions that we were having.
aha, so basically "rebooting windows resolves my performance problems" ;) >> I'm guessing this may have been a much bigger deal on strongly NUMA >> machines of a certain era (high-memory ia64 SGI, older kernels). and the situation you're referring to was actually on Altix, right? (therefore not necessarily a good idea with current machines and kernels.) _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
