> > 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