Felix Schulte wrote:
> On 3/14/06, Gavin Maltby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 03/14/06 12:19, Felix Schulte wrote:
> > > Good morning!
> > > Just saw
> > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/nahant-list/2006-March/msg00049.html
> > > - Red Hat now supports 64 cpus on AMD64, Sun only 21. Why is Sun
> > > lagging behind so much?
> >
> > There has been some work to address this (and we have appropriate test
> > equipment available now) but it has not yet gone back.
> When do you put the code back?
> >
> > You seem to be a bit short on memory here :-)
> No
>
> > See the discussion of
> > 24 Aug last year "Why is Solaris x86 limited to 21 CPUs?" and
> > "NCPU madness - which Sun product supports 558 CPUs?" - both threads
> > started by one Felix Schulte.
> I remember the discussion very good. I am complaining that Red Hat is
> the technology leader now.
Erm... since when ? Red Hat + Linux require a specialised kernel to deal
with many processors ("smp" and "largesmp" kernels) while Solaris only
needs one version for all.
> Sun had half a year to deal with the
> problem. Why is it so difficult to change the number from 21 to 64 as
> proposed in the previous discussion?
I can only guess here: What about that they want to do it right in two
way: 1) Make the number of processors a dynamic value which can ... 2)
... be larger than "64" ...
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