[CentOS] Re: CentOS 4.4 smp on Dual Quad Core Xeon

Mon Feb 26 18:17:26 UTC 2007
Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com>

chrism at imntv.com spake the following on
2/26/2007 8:51 AM:
> 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.   :)
Or run that years version of Windows ;-P


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