>
> Furthermore, it does not do anything to address the consideration that
> memory access on Opterons seem to be intrinsically faster than on Xeon
> due to differences in the memory bus architecture.
>
I have been running some tests using different numa policies on a quad Opteron
server and have found some significant performance differences depending on
the type of load the system is under. It's not clear to me yet if I can draw
any general conclusions from the results though.
Emil