> Sun evangelists over there to hear us say it. On modern x86 boxes the > smallest systems we can buy are grossly overspecced in the number of > cores required. This means that while the hardware is cheap (a couple > of boxes for a production RAC, a couple of boxes for a DR RAC, Stress > and PPTE environments, and so on will probably add up to a fraction of > the cost of the IFLs and memory required to support the workload), the > software licensing is hideous.
One of the reasons you can boot a system with max_cpus = n. Alan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
