From owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 14 12:58:51 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D27737B401 for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2003 12:58:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scribble.fsn.hu (scribble.fsn.hu [193.224.40.95]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A1E4243F85 for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2003 12:58:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bra@fsn.hu) Received: (qmail 22863 invoked from network); 14 Jul 2003 19:58:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO fsn.hu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 14 Jul 2003 19:58:46 -0000 Message-ID: <3F130B72.5000701@fsn.hu> Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 21:58:42 +0200 From: Attila Nagy Organization: Free Software Network Foundation - http://www.fsn.hu/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529 X-Accept-Language: hu, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Cagle, John (ISS-Houston)" References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Patrik_Vesel=EDk?= Subject: Re: maximum of CPUs X-BeenThere: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD SMP implementation group List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 19:58:51 -0000 Cagle, John (ISS-Houston) wrote: > I think that 8 CPUs is pretty much the limit for FreeBSD. > We have FreeBSD 5.1 running on an 8-way HP ProLiant DL740 and HP > ProLiant DL760. (That's 8 processors *without* using hyperthreading.) Just out of curiosity: what happens if you enable hyperthreading? -- Attila Nagy e-mail: Attila.Nagy@fsn.hu Free Software Network (FSN.HU) phone @work: +361 210 1415/127 ISOs: http://www.fsn.hu/?f=download cell.: +3630 306 6758