On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 12:33:10AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> You still only have 1 CPU chip, so NUMA is irrelevant. >> >> Thanks! Interestingly, you can turn it on nonetheless, and it works > > That's because the kernel doesn't just use stuff simply because you > compile it in. Search thru dmesg and you might see something > enlightening regarding NUMA. Well, I haven't compiled it in anymore, but afair it was saying something about faking a NUMA node.