Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 11 Jul 2001 02:16:39 +1200 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: How many pentium-3 processors does SMP support? |
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On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 04:12:00PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
Why limit the user? There are more than enough Linux system that have more than 32 CPUs (SGI, DEC, Sun).
The limit is architecture dependant, for ia32/i386 is it 32.
Making it a per-architecture value or even a config option make a lot more sense.
It turns out I was full of it, you can buy off the shelf 32-processor systems.
In anyone from Compaq is reading this, you should send me a 32-way Xeon ASAP just to prove they really work :)
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