What Is Numactl Used for?

Numactl lets administrators run a process with a specified scheduling or memory placement policy. Numactl can also set a persistent policy for shared memory segments or files, and set the processor affinity and memory affinity of a process. Numactl provides a number of useful options.

What is Numactl package?

numactl runs processes with a specific NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Architecture) scheduling or memory placement policy. In addition it can set persistent policy for shared memory segments or files.

What is Numactl command in Linux?

numactl is a utility which can be used to control NUMA policy for processes or shared memory. NUMA (stands for Non-Uniform Memory Access) is a memory architecture in which a given CPU core has variable access speeds to different regions of memory.