Re: Muliti-processor supports...?

[Samuel Flory <sflory rackable com>]

Win Toe wrote:

> I would like to know the no of multi-processors that Red Hat supports
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>
>  

 In theroy the 2.4 kernel supports a rather large number of cpu.  (In 
the range of 32 or 64.  I've forgotten as I've never used more than 8.)  
Scaling is another matter.  Depending on what you are doing linux tops 
out around 4-8 cpus.  Of course this all changes with numa under 2.6 
kernels.

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