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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9.0 and 4-socket Intel XEON E7-4870 system -->> 80
 logical CPUs
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On 09/08/11 08:15, Sergey Kandaurov wrote:
> On 8 September 2011 02:27, Hartmann, O.<ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>  wrote:
>>    Watching the ncpu number, I realized that FreeBSD is limited to 64
>>    processors.
>>    Some vendors offer now 4-socket Intel Xeon E7-4870 systems. This
>>    "Westmere"
>>    based CPU has 10 physical  and 20 logical cores, summa summarum 80
>>    cores.
>>    Is FreeBSD 9.0 capable of handling such a server?
> See kernel option MAXCPU and its description in NOTES.
>
Thanks a lot.
My view of the limit was a bit outdated ...

Regards,

oh