RFE: Increase NR_CPUS to 4096

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Mon Jul 15 23:54:20 UTC 2013


On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 12:29:15AM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:

 > 8 socket 10 core Xeon XE (I think that's what they're now called,
 > might be Xeon E7) with hyper threading are commonly available now (if
 > you've got in the high tens or 100s of thousand pounds) so it might be
 > a consideration to bump it to 160 but I have no ideas of the side
 > effects of that on the average 2-4 core users.

I'm aware they exist, but the likelyhood of a Fedora user running one
isn't going to happen any time soon.

If you've got that kind of dollar, it's pretty unlikely you're going
to cheap out and run a free distro.

	Dave



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