Mario Charest
05/28/2008 11:54 AM
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> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 03:49:06PM -0400, Mario Charest wrote:
> > The doc says, on x86, maxiimum number of CPU is 8. Is that still the
> > case. Does 6.4 increases that. IBM is going to lend us a 4CPU/4core
> > machine (16 processor) for 2 months...
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> No, it's still 8 for the shipping product. You can compile a specialty
> version off of Foundry27, by modifying the PROCESSORS_MAX definition
> in services/system/smpswitch - but no higher than 32 since some of
> the data structures would break after that point.
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> Brian
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> Brian Stecher (bstecher@qnx.com) QNX Software Systems
> phone: +1 (613) 591-0931 (voice) 175 Terence Matthews Cr.
> +1 (613) 591-3579 (fax) Kanata, Ontario, Canada K2M 1W8
Thanks. Out of curiousity, if it can support up to 32 why the 8 limit ?
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