Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > well, duncan has some old hardware and likes to turn on a lot of superfluos > options. Don't touch the numa stuff. Don't even enable it if you have 2cores > or intel system. > > > True. NUMA is for Non Uniform Memory Access systems or roughly the systems with several nodes, each with at least one core and some local memory with lowest access times for that particular core.
Dual and quadcore like i7 or Phenom is simple SMP where all nodes see memory through the same interface. Modern multisocket i7-based or Opteron is NUMA...
