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On Thursday, August 09, 2012 10:38:12 am Resit Sahin wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Does FreeBSD 9.0 or 9.1 "fully" support NUMA Architectures? It is said 
> that FreeBSD 9.0 has an initial NUMA support but is this initial support 
> enough for getting major performance gains?

It can give gains if you are careful to pin your threads to packages.

-- 
John Baldwin