How do I enable NUMA for Intel Nehalem CPUs under Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4?

Issue

• You want to enable non-uniform memory access (NUMA) capabilities on a system with an Intel Nehalem CPU.

Environment

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

Resolution

• Support for these processors was added in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.7 kernel update (kernel-2.6.9-78.EL).

        (Please note that the fix...