FreeBSD Maximum CPU/RAM

John-Mark Gurney gurney_j at resnet.uoregon.edu
Mon Dec 20 10:41:55 PST 2004


Tan Heng Chai wrote this message on Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 08:39 +0800:
> 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

IRIX...

> chucked Solaris 9 out of my box after 1 week of experimenting. Way too
> painful to tune to.

There was a system that ran 8 procs w/ 8gigs of memory on a E4500, but
I think the reason it was only 8 procs was that was all in the box..

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