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Subject: Re: Whining about NUMA. :)  [Was whining about 2.5...]
To: Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 19:10:13 +0100 (BST)
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> > speculate on how the 2.4.10 vm works anyway
> 
> Can you describe why it's N! ? Are you talking about the worst possible case, 
> or a two level local / non-local problem?

Worst possible. I dont think in reality it will be nearly that bad