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Date:      Mon, 14 Jul 2003 22:52:59 +0200
From:      Attila Nagy <bra@fsn.hu>
To:        "Cagle, John (ISS-Houston)" <john.cagle@hp.com>
Cc:        =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Patrik_Vesel=EDk?= <veselik@ssakhk.cz>
Subject:   Re: maximum of CPUs
Message-ID:  <3F13182B.9040209@fsn.hu>
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Cagle, John (ISS-Houston) wrote:
> If you enable hyperthreading on an 8-way server, you'll end up with 16 logical processors (and a *whole bunch* of APIC's) -- a scenario that is not comprehended by FreeBSD.  In other words, there needs to be some more engineering done on FreeBSD to support more than 8 processors (AFAICT).
I remember now about the discussions about this.
Thanks.

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