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by trasz 1401 days ago
It worked faster. It's a common misconception among newbies that "Linux has NUMA" automatically means it will use NUMA properly in a given workload. What it actually means is you _should_ be able to use existing functionality. Sometimes you'll only need to configure it, sometimes you'll need to reimplement it from the scratch, and doing that in FreeBSD is easier because there's less bloat.