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On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Tomi Lapinlampi wrote:

> > Hmmm. I am not familiar with Alpha. The .config looks as if this is a 
> > uniprocessor configuration? No NUMA? 
> 
> This is a simple uniprocessor configuration, no NUMA, no SMP. 
> 
> > What is the value of MAX_NUMNODES?
> 
> I'm not familiar with NUMA, where can I check this (or does this question
> even apply since it's not a NUMA system) ?

Well, one use of memory nodes is to describe discontiguous memory on some 
architectures. Thus the number of nodes may be more than one even if 
CONFIG_NUMA is off. This is the case f.e. on ppc64. There may be some arch 
specific settings that cause problems here.