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I’m not a Java expert, but potentially due to the CPU/memory OS scheduler?

Try running the workload with pinned CPUs assigned and not across NUMA nodes.

Try running the workload with pinned CPUs assigned ^^^--- it will be this.

I've run into the same weirdness on other things and this always solves it. Some cores are better at some things than others.

It was indeed this.