Tom,

> What I think this means is that the kernel is scheduling the 2 processes
> onto 2 processors chosen-at-random, without awareness of whether those
> two processors are on the same chip (in the Xeon case) or have closer
> NUMA affinity (in the Opteron case).

That would be consistent with my experience with HT, and the reason why many 
software vendors recommend disabling it.  Not sure about NUMA.

-- 
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

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