chrism@imntv.com spake the following on 2/26/2007 8:51 AM:
Morten Torstensen wrote:
Tru Huynh wrote:
[tru@quadcore ~]$ uname -a Linux quadcore 2.6.9-42.0.3.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri Oct 6 06:28:26 CDT 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux [tru@quadcore ~]$ grep -A4 processor /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0
Just take care with more than 8 CPUs, because you need the largesmp kernel then. Worked on a 8 socket, 16 CPU system where that was a pain due to binary kernel modules.
Now those machines could be 32 CPU systems... and you could add 8 sockets more. 64 CPUs on Intel platform with commodity hardware. Not that many years ago that would have been utopia :)
A few years from now you'll need that much horsepower to play Quake VIII. :)
Or run that years version of Windows ;-P