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Date:      Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:59:51 +0100
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
To:        =?UTF-8?B?RGFnLUVybGluZyBTbcO4cmdyYXY=?= <des@des.no>
Cc:        Timo Schoeler <timo.schoeler@riscworks.net>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: strace broken in 7.0?
Message-ID:  <47878467.3090508@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <86tzlkct8a.fsf@ds4.des.no>
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:

> By the way, as far as I know, FreeBSD already runs on machines with a
> non-power-of-two number of cores:
> 
>  - The AMD Opteron architecture supports an arbitrary number of cores in
>    a HyperTransport ring; there are triple-socket Opteron motherboards,
>    and AMD is expected to launch a triple-core Phenom this quarter.
> 
>  - The Sun UltraSPARC T1 (which runs FreeBSD/sun4v) is available with
>    four, six and eight physical cores, each with four concurrent
>    execution threads, giving a total of sixteen, twenty-four or
>    thirty-two logical cores.
> 
> DES

We also have run extensively on sparc e4500 systems with random numbers 
of CPUs like 10, 12, and 14.

Kris




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