Re: FreeBSD 9.0 and 4-socket Intel XEON E7-4870 system -->> 80 logical CPUs

From: Sergey Kandaurov <pluknet_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 10:15:23 +0400
On 8 September 2011 02:27, Hartmann, O. <ohartman_at_zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>
>   Watching the ncpu number, I realized that FreeBSD is limited to 64
>   processors.
>   Some vendors offer now 4-socket Intel Xeon E7-4870 systems. This
>   "Westmere"
>   based CPU has 10 physical  and 20 logical cores, summa summarum 80
>   cores.
>   Is FreeBSD 9.0 capable of handling such a server?

See kernel option MAXCPU and its description in NOTES.

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