NUMA
Reviewing the physical layers helps to understand the behavior of the CPU scheduler of the VMkernel. This helps to select a...
Non-uniform memory access (NUMA) is a shared memory architecture used in today’s multiprocessing systems. Each CPU is assigned its own local memory...
Recently I’ve been analyzing traffic to my site and it appears that a lot CPU and memory articles are still very...
A question that I frequently receive is if there is a difference in virtual machine performance if the virtual machine is...
AMD’s current flagship model is the 12-core 6100 Opteron code name Magny-Cours. Its architecture is quite interesting to say at least....
There seems to be a lot of confusion about this BIOS setting, I receive lots of questions on whether to enable...
I received a lot of questions about Hyperthreading and NUMA in ESX 4.1 after writing the ESX 4.1 NUMA scheduling article....
VMware has made some changes to the CPU scheduler in ESX 4.1; one of the changes is the support for Wide...
Note: This article describes NUMA scheduling on ESX 3.5 and ESX 4.0 platform, vSphere 4.1 introduced wide NUMA nodes, information about...
