[CentOS] CentOS 4.4 smp on Dual Quad Core Xeon

Mon Feb 26 16:51:04 UTC 2007
chrism at imntv.com <chrism at imntv.com>

Morten Torstensen wrote:
> Tru Huynh wrote:
>> [tru at 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 at 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.   :)