Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 08:39:05 +0800 From: Tan Heng Chai <hengchai@gmail.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Maximum CPU/RAM Message-ID: <b590cdf404121716397d3ca39c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20041217192131.GA93290@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <b590cdf404121708391aff2270@mail.gmail.com> <20041217192131.GA93290@xor.obsecurity.org>
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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 chucked Solaris 9 out of my box after 1 week of experimenting. Way too painful to tune to. On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 11:21:32 -0800, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 12:39:57AM +0800, Tan Heng Chai wrote: > > Does anyone know what is the maximum CPU/RAM support for the sparc64 port? I > > currently have an Enterprise 4000 with 4x 250Mhz CPU and 3GB ram. Intending > > to upgrade to 336mhz CPUs and more ram. Have read some threads that say max > > CPU support is 8 CPUs, though not sure if this is the same for the sparc64 > > port. Do help, thanks. > > It's more an issue that FreeBSD won't run as efficiently as you add > more CPUs, because of lack of parallelism in the kernel (this is being > steadily worked on, of course). I don't think 5.3 has been > well-tested on machines with more than 4 CPUs. > > Kris > > >
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