[CentOS] Hot swap CPU
Mark A. Lewis
mark at siliconjunkie.net
Wed Jun 29 18:39:42 UTC 2005
Compaq/HP Proliant DL580/DL760 both have this.
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> [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Rodrigo Barbosa
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> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Hot swap CPU
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> On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 12:59:24PM -0500, Bryan J. Smith
> <b.j.smith at ieee.org> wrote:
> > From: Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob at suespammers.org>
> > > Btw, don't quote me on this one :)
> > > I'm only 90% sure of the hotswapping capabilities, and
> less than 50%
> > > sure about the price :)
> >
> > There _are_ systems with hot-swap CPUs, memory and/or,
> PCI[-X] slots.
> > They are _not_ commodity and pricey, and require OS-level support.
> >
> > In fact, I believe Linux 2.6 has some support for hot-swap
> -- at least
> > at the PCI[-X] level, if not memory and possibly CPU as well. It
> > requires extensive support though for that type of
> "dynamic" flexibility.
>
> Memory hotswap ?
> Sounds fishy to me, at least on IA32{,e} platforms. Are you
> sure about that ?
>
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