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NUMA Alignment on Proxmox VE β€” Why It Matters and How to Get It Right

On multi-socket systems, a VM with its vCPUs on one NUMA node and its passed-through device on another loses 20–30% throughput before you’ve even looked at anything else.

7th August 2026 Β· 9 min Β· 1758 words Β· Damien Dye