The most powerful super computer runs Ubuntu with over 3.2 million cores. There fore I can state that Linux is very good at scaling as I have seem the other side with embedded systems. Cheers Nick
On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 11:24 PM, Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, 2014-07-04 at 16:40 -0400, Nick Krause wrote: >> I am curious after reading some outdated kernel papers, how scalable >> is the kernel of >> late? I am curious mostly in memory and cpu subsystems as file systems >> will change >> based on user's choice. > > You can currently configure for up to 8192 CPUs. I've not seen any > benchmark data whatsoever for huge boxen, have no idea where which > subsystem crumbles. SGI asked for the increase to 8192, so presumably > do manage to squeeze acceptable performance out of size XXXXL boxen. > > -Mike > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
