please deactivate services by default!

Peter Robinson pbrobinson at gmail.com
Fri Sep 26 08:00:59 UTC 2008


>> > Live CD is always cramped for space. So everything that doesn't really fit
>> > the regular single user desktop use cases (and sometimes even that) would
>> > probably be removed from the live cd unless there are package dependencies.
>> > Even earlier today, release engineering was fighting to get it down to CD
>> > size.
>>
>> Dare I ask why numactl is on there then :-) Its not like a person
>> installing a numactl system wouldn't know how to install a package and
>> its fairly distant from your mainstream.
>
> All multi-processor x86_64 machines are NUMA. I'm unclear how this
> applies to multi-core (in one chip) though. Do the cores have
> independent DDR controllers?

I thought numa is a series of computers connected together via a fast
interconnect such as Infiband where they can access each others memory
but accessing local memory is faster than non-local memory. Hence Non
Uniform Memory Access.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Uniform_Memory_Access

Peter




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