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Welcome, my name is Harish Mallipeddi. I work for Amazon Web Services (AWS). This blog is mostly a dump of interesting articles that I come across on the web. Topics span across multiple areas including algorithms/datastructures, NoSQL stores, database internals, web-scale challenges, and functional languages.

September 29, 2010 at 11:06am

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Article discusses how Linux handles memory in a NUMA system especially when you’ve a single process (like mysqld) trying to take up 90% of the physical memory on the box.