Oracle Best Practices in 10g When Disabling NUMA

We have both Linux and Solaris 10 DB servers running 10g on them with NUMA. What is Oracle's best practice for dealing with NUMA in hardware when it can be disabled?

user10387007 wrote:
We have both Linux and Solaris 10 DB servers running 10g on them with NUMA. What is Oracle's best practice for dealing with NUMA in hardware when it can be disabled?How are you using NUMA (Non Uniformed Memory Access)?
NUMA can be implemented at CPU level - in which case CPU affinity becomes important. NUMA can be used across an Interconnect (e.g. SCSI over RDMA protocol).
So it depends on what you mean by NUMA and how you are using it (and whether or not it is used by the Oracle s/w stack itself).

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