On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 12:38:27PM +0100, Frank van der Linden wrote: > But, touting the limit is kinda pointless if the current limit is well > below it.. I've never run NetBSD/amd64 on more than 4CPU/16G, and it > might blow up spectacularly when run on 32CPU hardware, should it become > available. The RH 64 limit is just marketing..
I don't know of an actual x86_64 system with 64 cpus, but the Unisys E7000 series is supported with up to 32 (single core) Cpus with both RedHat and SuSE and works well (although not officially supported) with normal mainline kernels. As they probably plan using dual core Xeons that 64 Cpu will probably be readched with real hardware soon. On the ia64 side there's hundreds of machines in the range from 64 to 128 in the field from sgi that run normal SuSE or seldomly RedHat, and there are some 256 and 512 cpu machines with plain SLES9 in the field aswell. So this isn't just marketing, machines of that size do become more or less common these days. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
