[forkqueue]

I've worked on several servers of similar specs to this (64GB RAM, MySQL 5.0 or 5.1) and have never seen this issue.

All systems were running RHEL or CentOS, so perhaps Red Hat have fixed the problem.

[metageek]

What CPUs? As the article says, the NUMA characteristics show up with Optera and Nehalems; older Intel chips didn't have it.