How many NUMA nodes should I have if I have lots of RAM and just a few cores?

There are some systems out there which have a lot of RAM, but only a few processors and these machines may need a non-standard NUMA configuration in order to be properly setup. For this example, let’s assume that we have a physical server with 512 Gigs of RAM and two physical NUMA nodes (and two…

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