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Date:      Thu, 8 Sep 2011 10:15:23 +0400
From:      Sergey Kandaurov <pluknet@gmail.com>
To:        "Hartmann, O." <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
Cc:        freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 9.0 and 4-socket Intel XEON E7-4870 system -->> 80 logical CPUs
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On 8 September 2011 02:27, Hartmann, O. <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote=
:
>
> =A0 Watching the ncpu number, I realized that FreeBSD is limited to 64
> =A0 processors.
> =A0 Some vendors offer now 4-socket Intel Xeon E7-4870 systems. This
> =A0 "Westmere"
> =A0 based CPU has 10 physical =A0and 20 logical cores, summa summarum 80
> =A0 cores.
> =A0 Is FreeBSD 9.0 capable of handling such a server?

See kernel option MAXCPU and its description in NOTES.

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