Re: Options for growth

On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:19:36 -0700 (MST)
"scott.marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com> wrote:

> On 23 Jan 2003, Hannu Krosing wrote:
>
> > Curt Sampson kirjutas N, 23.01.2003 kell 17:42:
> > > If the OS can handle the scheduling (which, last I checked, Linux couldn't,
> >
> > When did you do your checking ?
> > (just curious, not to start a flame war ;)
> >
> > > at least not without patches), eight or sixteen
> > > CPUs will be fine.
>
> Yeah, take a look here:
>
> http://www.sgi.com/servers/altix/
>
> 64 CPUs seems scalable enough for me. :-) When can we expect BSD to run
> on this system and use all 64 CPUs efficiently?
>

I think FreeBSD 5.[1|2] will be able to. That was the entire reason for SMPng and
KSE. There is not too much of the kernel left untouched from the 4.0 split.

As far as NetBSD or OpenBSD goes, I would not expect it too soon...

GB

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