D. Olson wrote: >On Friday 02 August 2002 07:38 pm, you wrote: > >>896MB is the cap with the standard kernel. >>You need to use the enterprise kernel. >> > >What is the point of capping? Does it make the kernel smaller/faster or >something? > >Also, I was wondering about CPU support. How many CPUs can a Linux kernel >support? I mean, I know that my server uses two just fine, but what's the >maximum Linux supports? > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Well, most motherboards offer two or perhaps four. It is a motherboard limitation. Mandrakesoft helped construct a supercomputing cluster with 512 processors which is listed as one of the 500 fastest computers in the world, so I don't think you really need to worry about limits in number of processors. 8 on a single board might be a practical limit, but there are other ways of expanding from there... For a glimpse on how inexpensive it can be try looking at http://stonesoup.esd.ornl.gov
Capping is advisable for architectural reasons. Remember we are dealing with a microprocessor that outsold all the others but whose instruction set had some severe limitations on addressing. Different methods of addressing are used in the standard kernel and in the large memory model ones (which go up to 64G). Civileme
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