Re: [TCLUG:21592] Pentium Pro's

[<Nick.T.Reinking@supervalu.com>]

Whether it'll actually efficiently use 32/64 CPUs is doubtful.

Even our Sun rep here says that Solaris has a difficulty
scaling beyond 23 CPUs.

I guess we'll see.

Nick





chrome@real-time.com, on 09/25/2000 02:33:49 PM
To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org @ PMDF
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Subject: Re: [TCLUG:21592] Pentium Pro's

> I have also seen >2 processor PPro systems, and I even looked at
> purchasing a 16 processor Pentium classic 166mhz system, i doubt it's
> still around, but it was an interesting machine.

what make/model was it? 
would have been an interesting thing to play with. :)

anyone have any idea what a 32-processor Sequent (now IBM NUMA-Q) server costs 
these days? 

Linux 2.4 has a hard limit of 32 processors on 32-bit archs, 64 procs on
64-bit architectures. (tho they're going to try to fix that for 2.5)
something to do with word-sized processor numbers in a couple of places in
the code.

Carl Soderstrom
-- 
Network Engineer
Real-Time Enterprises
(952) 943-8700

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