On 8/24/05, Eric Schrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 10:47:31PM +0200, Felix Schulte wrote:
> > Why is Solaris x86 limited to 21 CPUs
> > (http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/usr/src/uts/i86pc/sys/machparam.h#51)?
> > Is there simply no hardware with more than 20 CPUs or are there other
> > limits in the kernel which cause this limitation (SPARC uses 64+576)?
>
> This is largely historical. There is a bug:
>
> 5081104 NCPU has been outgrown on x86
The problem is even far older -
http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4238977 has
been filed in 1999 (six years ago).
NCPU=64 for i386 would be nice to be in sync with SPARC.
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