FreeBSD 9.0 and 4-socket Intel XEON E7-4870 system -->> 80 logical CPUs

[Garrett Cooper]

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 3:27 PM, 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?

Yes, with some potential catches.
-Garrett

1. http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=222813
2. http://groups.google.com/group/mailing.freebsd.hackers/browse_thread/thread/2f4da860c972d5aa