An application may stall or hang if it attempts memory allocation requests that will exhaust all available local physical memory in a NUMA system

Issue

An application may stall or hang if it attempts memory allocation requests that will exhaust all available local physical memory in a NUMA system. This issue may occur when the relative distance to remote memory is greater than 20. Use the numactl --hardware command to view the memory distance matrix for your hardware.

Solution

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