I have a primary process that spawns a secondary process.Primary is on NUMA 1 while secondary on NUMA 0. The secondary process starts up but when calling rte_eal_init it gets stuck with this backtrace: flock() sync_walk() rte_memseg_list_walk_thread_unsafe() eal_memalloc_sync_with_primary() rte_eal_hugepage_attach() rte_eal_memory_init() rte_eal_init.cold() While starting the secondary, it is possible that the primary is allocating memory on different NUMAs. I'm saying this because if in the primary I replace the dpdk memory allocation function (rte_zalloc...) with a plain memalign I don't get this problem.