Improve scaling of memory management

Details

Detail name Value
Changelog Number 30897
Type Improvement
Status Resolved
Fix Versions Exasol 2026.1.2
Resolution Date 2026-09-14

Background

NUMA analysis shows some heavy contention on some memory allocation structures.

Improvement

Improve scaling with many cores especially on NUMA machines.

We increased the number of the contended atomic pointers and improved the access to be distributed between the pointers.