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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