From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 30 19:17:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from edwin.mounet.com (edwin.mounet.com [216.145.76.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 76A4937B403 for ; Sat, 30 Jun 2001 19:17:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hornback@wireco.net) Received: (qmail 3693 invoked by uid 0); 1 Jul 2001 02:15:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO tomcat) (216.145.85.241) by mounet.com with SMTP; 1 Jul 2001 02:15:05 -0000 From: "Andrew C. Hornback" To: "Linh Pham" , "Alexandr Alov" Cc: Subject: RE: Question of day. Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 22:15:41 -0400 Message-ID: <004801c101d3$ba4cb100$0e00000a@tomcat> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Linh Pham > Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2001 2:54 PM > To: Alexandr Alov > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org > Subject: Re: Question of day. > > > On 2001-06-30, Alexandr Alov scribbled: > > # What maximum quantity of processors can support FreeBSD 4.3 ? > > I've seen FreeBSD 4.x installations with four Intel Xeon processors... > but with the current SMP code, you probably won't be able to take > complete advantage of all four processors. SMPng in FreeBSD 5.x is > supposed to take SMP performance to a much higher notch. > > Haven't been able to get my hands on a eight-way server yet :) I've seen FreeBSD 4.2-Release running on a 6 way machine, and this was about 5 months ago. Worked like a charm, and a good thing too, since I'm building one of these "monsters" myself... Given the technology that's out there, the most IA processors I've ever heard of in a machine would be the new Unisys CMP-7000 (Model number might be wrong) with up to either 32 or 64 processors per box... needless to say, it'll be a while before I get one of those as a workstation. *evil grin* --- Andy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message