Supporting large NUMA systems with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Issue

Certain configuration requirements and performance expectations need to be considered when using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL 5) on large x86 and x86_64 systems, such as the Intel® Xeon® processor 7500/8800 series and AMD® Opteron® 6000 large core count processors.

Environment

Working with the theoretical limits of the 2.6.18-based kernel, Red Hat continu...