Re: [suse-amd64] number of CPUs for SMP kernels
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 05:19:13PM -0700, Black, Alain wrote:
Does that count physical processors or cores on the processors?
local APIC IDs, cores or even HT threads.
Remember he asked for ancient distributions. Yes, you are right about "ancient" :-) The reason of question was just the possibility to use
In message from "Andi Kleen"
Modern ones (including SLES9-SP2) have these limits extended, however there is no supported AMD setup right now with that many CPUs.
Currently AMD has dual core CPU's on the market, they are supposed to release quad core CPU's sometime in Q1 2006.
Would we then be restricted to 2 quad core CPU's?
8 APIC ID is four socket dual core or 8 socket single core.
-Andi
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Do I understasnd you correctly, that this SuSE versions will (at least in theory) work w/4 cores ?
In theory possibly on a 2 socket / 4 core system, but in practice you will miss chipset/graphics drivers etc. needed for the newer chipsets so you will want a newer distribution anyways. -Andi
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