How to disable NUMA in Red Hat Enterprise Linux system

How to disable NUMA in Red Hat Enterprise Linux system?

Solution Verified - Updated August 17 2017 at 11:06 AM -

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Environment

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Issue

• How to disable NUMA in Red Hat Enterprise Linux system?

Resolution

Adding the "numa=off" to kernel command line in boot loader configuration and rebooting the system will disable NUMA.

Examples:

• RHEL 4, RHEL 5, RHEL 6 (/boot/grub/grub.conf)

Raw

    title Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (2.6.9-55.EL)
            root (hd0,0)
            kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-55.EL ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet numa=off
            initrd /initrd-2.6.9-55.EL.img

• RHEL 7 (/etc/default/grub)

Raw

    GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rd.lvm.lv=rhel_vm-210/root rd.lvm.lv=rhel_vm-210/swap vconsole.font=latarcyrheb-sun16 crashkernel=auto  vconsole.keymap=us rhgb quiet numa=off"

Please note, on RHEL 7 grub config has to be rebuilt for changes to take effect:

Raw

~]# grub2-mkconfig -o /etc/grub2.cfg

• Product(s)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux

• Component
• numactl

• Tags
• numa

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