Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-amd64 (470 mails)

[Bjorn Tore Sund <bjornts@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 6 May 2004, Adrian Wu wrote:

> Just wondering if we can run 9.1 Prof on a 4-way box. Have anyone
> actually tried it?

I haven't tried it, but there's no reason why a SMP-kernel shouldn't
handle four cpus as well as two.  This is a question about the linux
kernel, not SuSE specifically.  And the linux kernel have been able
to handle four cpus without problems for quite some time - I have a
few of those myself.

The problem with multi-cpu boxes isn't the cpus, but may be all the
other funny stuff one tends to put in them to have them work as a
server - RAID-controller, in particular, is something you need to
be careful in chosing.

Bjørn
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