How many processors are active in box ?

Marti, Robert RJM002 at shsu.edu
Thu Dec 17 12:40:27 UTC 2009


There us a difference between what is supported and what will work.   
There is no software limit on the number of CPUs but there is a  
support limit.  Also, ES and AS don't exist in rhel5.  It's Advanced  
Platform or not.

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On Dec 17, 2009, at 5:13, "Dusan Djordjevic" <dj.dule.liste at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 11:59 AM,  <dustin at larmeir.com> wrote:
>> Dmidecode will show you the amount of physical processors installed:
>
> Yes, dmidecode shown the same thing as /proc/cpuinfo, that I have 4
> processors (CPU0-CPU3). So it seems that I have 4 x single core
> Opterons 850, RHEL Enterprise Server atop of that and all processors
> are working. That is what confused me in the first place, since Red
> Hat mentions that it should work with 2 processors only.
>
> Maybe I am wrong about /etc/issue
>
> [dusan at ... ~]$ cat /etc/issue
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.2 (Tikanga)
>
> Advanced servers should have AS in name, right ?
>
> If so, then I have ES installed on 4 processor box and all of them  
> works :)
>
> Regards,
> Dusan
>
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