Issued:
2012-06-20
Updated:
2012-06-20

RHEA-2012:0890 - new package: numad

Synopsis

new package: numad

Type/Severity

Product Enhancement Advisory (none)

Topic

A new numad package is now available as a Technology Preview for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The numad package provides a daemon for NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Architecture) systems, that monitors NUMA characteristics. As an alternative to manual static CPU pining and memory assignment, numad provides dynamic adjustment to minimize memory latency on an ongoing basis. The package also provides an interface that can be used to query the numad daemon for the best manual placement of an application.

This enhancement update adds the numad package to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 as a Technology preview. (BZ#758416, BZ#824067)

More information about Red Hat Technology Previews is available here:

https://access.redhat.com/support/offerings/techpreview/

All users who want to use the numad Technology Preview should install this newly-released package, which adds this enhancement.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian6ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6x86_64

Updated Packages

  • numad-debuginfo-0.5-4.20120522git.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • numad-0.5-4.20120522git.el6.src.rpm
  • numad-0.5-4.20120522git.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • numad-0.5-4.20120522git.el6.i686.rpm
  • numad-debuginfo-0.5-4.20120522git.el6.i686.rpm
  • numad-0.5-4.20120522git.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • numad-debuginfo-0.5-4.20120522git.el6.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

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Additional information