FreeBSD 9.0 and 4-socket Intel XEON E7-4870 system -->> 80
logical CPUs
Hartmann, O.
ohartman at zedat.fu-berlin.de
Thu Sep 8 06:47:17 UTC 2011
On 09/08/11 08:15, Sergey Kandaurov wrote:
> On 8 September 2011 02:27, Hartmann, O.<ohartman at 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My view of the limit was a bit outdated ...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
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