Thank you for the long awaited x86_64 port!
Looking through the RedHat pages concerning their EL releases, I find that the ES and WS versions claim to support only 2 CPUs while the AS version supports, well, more. With the CentOS releases following the ES releases, can I assume that this too is limited to two CPUs?
Is this a kernel issue or something else? Should I be thinking of loading a non-CentOS release on a quad Opteron box?
Thanks,
Bill
On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 10:15, Bill Wichser wrote:
Thank you for the long awaited x86_64 port!
Looking through the RedHat pages concerning their EL releases, I find that the ES and WS versions claim to support only 2 CPUs while the AS version supports, well, more. With the CentOS releases following the ES releases, can I assume that this too is limited to two CPUs?
Is this a kernel issue or something else? Should I be thinking of loading a non-CentOS release on a quad Opteron box?
unless I'm delusional I thought centos is based off of AS, not ES.
Am I wrong about that? -sv
From the "About" page of caosity.org, this appears to have been true of the CentOS-2 release but not of CentOS-3:
"The cAos project also fosters the development of two Enterprise Linux solutions, CentOS-2 and CentOS-3, based on Redhat Enterprise Linux AS 2.1 and 3 ES respectively."
Bill
seth vidal wrote:
On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 10:15, Bill Wichser wrote:
Thank you for the long awaited x86_64 port!
Looking through the RedHat pages concerning their EL releases, I find that the ES and WS versions claim to support only 2 CPUs while the AS version supports, well, more. With the CentOS releases following the ES releases, can I assume that this too is limited to two CPUs?
Is this a kernel issue or something else? Should I be thinking of loading a non-CentOS release on a quad Opteron box?
unless I'm delusional I thought centos is based off of AS, not ES.
Am I wrong about that? -sv
On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, seth vidal wrote:
On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 10:15, Bill Wichser wrote:
Thank you for the long awaited x86_64 port!
Looking through the RedHat pages concerning their EL releases, I find that the ES and WS versions claim to support only 2 CPUs while the AS version supports, well, more. With the CentOS releases following the ES releases, can I assume that this too is limited to two CPUs?
Is this a kernel issue or something else? Should I be thinking of loading a non-CentOS release on a quad Opteron box?
unless I'm delusional I thought centos is based off of AS, not ES.
well the differences between ES & AS are pretty cosmetic / marketing
CentOS was built from ES but has the restrictions removed so there is no artificial limit (warning ?) to the number of CPU's 'supported' (where 'supported' implies heldesk rather than physical/conceptual )
Regards
Lance
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