Why do I want to use numad service?

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While you can use numactl to manually set a process affinity, that's an approach that requires administrative work.
numad aims to achieve optimal performance in NUMA systems by placing processes in NUMA nodes automatically without requiring manual configuration.

Let's see a simple example:

# numactl --hardware
available: 2 nodes (0-1)
node ...

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