The code for Irix is replicated during the booting procedure, according
to the ratio specified by the tunable nnnnuuuummmmaaaa____kkkkeeeerrrrnnnneeeellll____rrrreeeepppplllliiiiccccaaaattttiiiioooonnnn____rrrraaaattttiiiioooo in
/var/sysgen/mtune/numa. There's always a copy on the _m_a_s_t_e_r node, and
for a ratio nnnn, copies are made on every nnnn of the other nodes. 0 means no
copies. The default value is 1, which causes copies of the kernel text to
There are two kinds of _R_e_p_l_i_c_a_t_i_o_n _C_o_n_t_r_o_l
**** TTTTrrrraaaaffffffffiiiicccc CCCCoooonnnnttttrrrroooollll. When traffic across the links needed to do the copy
are being over-utilized, replication is not done. The tunable
nnnnuuuummmmaaaa____rrrreeeeppppllll____ttttrrrraaaaffffffffiiiicccc____hhhhiiiigggghhhhmmmmaaaarrrrkkkk____ppppeeeerrrrcccceeeennnnttttaaaaggggeeee defines the point at which a
link is considered over-utilized. This control is currently
experimental an is disabled for production systems.
* nnnnuuuummmmaaaa____rrrreeeeppppllll____mmmmeeeemmmm____lllloooowwwwmmmmaaaarrrrkkkk. Replication is not done if the amount of
physical memory falls below a threshold, defined by
nnnnuuuummmmaaaa____rrrreeeeppppllll____mmmmeeeemmmm____lllloooowwwwmmmmaaaarrrrkkkk, and expressed in terms of _n_u_m_b_e_r _o_f _p_a_g_e_s.