Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 10:41:53 -0800 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Tan Heng Chai <hengchai@gmail.com> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Maximum CPU/RAM Message-ID: <20041220184152.GA19624@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <b590cdf404121716397d3ca39c@mail.gmail.com> References: <b590cdf404121708391aff2270@mail.gmail.com> <20041217192131.GA93290@xor.obsecurity.org> <b590cdf404121716397d3ca39c@mail.gmail.com>
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Tan Heng Chai wrote this message on Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 08:39 +0800:
> I saw a couple of threads on people running FreeBSD on 8-way Xeons,
> seems favourable though.
>
> Not meaning to be "rude" (this is after all, a FreeBSD mailing list),
> but is there any other OS that scales CPUs, minus Solaris? I have just
IRIX...
> chucked Solaris 9 out of my box after 1 week of experimenting. Way too
> painful to tune to.
There was a system that ran 8 procs w/ 8gigs of memory on a E4500, but
I think the reason it was only 8 procs was that was all in the box..
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