On 02/06/2012 04:02 PM, jdow wrote: > (On a heavily loaded system, just when are you going to find 12 gigabytes > of fully contiguous storage?) Probably lots of places on the below 1.0 TB Dell R910 box: :-) [no, not heavily loaded at the moment, so your point is still valid, but don't forget times are a-changin'!] # numactl --hardware available: 4 nodes (0-3) node 0 size: 258511 MB node 0 free: 255268 MB node 1 size: 258560 MB node 1 free: 258467 MB node 2 size: 258560 MB node 2 free: 258356 MB node 3 size: 256540 MB node 3 free: 256450 MB node distances: node 0 1 2 3 0: 10 20 20 20 1: 20 10 20 20 2: 20 20 10 20 3: 20 20 20 10