Otherwise you will get spurious failures in the non-strict policies (preferred, interleave.) See the manpages [`numactl.8`](https://linux.die.net/man/8/numactl) and [`numa.3`](https://linux.die.net/man/3/numa) for details. # License, Copyrights, Acknowledgements `numactl` and the demo programs are under the GNU General Public License, v.2. `libnuma` is under the GNU Lesser General Public License, v2.1. The manpages are under the same license as the Linux manpages (see the files.)