Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 22:52:59 +0200 From: Attila Nagy <bra@fsn.hu> To: "Cagle, John (ISS-Houston)" <john.cagle@hp.com> Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Patrik_Vesel=EDk?= <veselik@ssakhk.cz> Subject: Re: maximum of CPUs Message-ID: <3F13182B.9040209@fsn.hu> In-Reply-To: <C50AB9511EE59B49B2A503CB7AE1ABD10476C7AF@cceexc19.americas.cpqcorp.net> References: <C50AB9511EE59B49B2A503CB7AE1ABD10476C7AF@cceexc19.americas.cpqcorp.net>
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Cagle, John (ISS-Houston) wrote: > If you enable hyperthreading on an 8-way server, you'll end up with 16 logical processors (and a *whole bunch* of APIC's) -- a scenario that is not comprehended by FreeBSD. In other words, there needs to be some more engineering done on FreeBSD to support more than 8 processors (AFAICT). I remember now about the discussions about this. Thanks. -- Attila Nagy e-mail: Attila.Nagy@fsn.hu Free Software Network (FSN.HU) phone @work: +361 210 1415/127 ISOs: http://www.fsn.hu/?f=download cell.: +3630 306 6758
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