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Re: kernel 2.6.18+ SMP question



On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 22:02 +0200, Robert Cates wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> just a general question - I'm interested in getting a motherboard that
> supports 4 of the new AMD Quad Core CPUs.  That would be effectively 16
> CPUs.  My question is, with the 2.6.18-5-686 kernel from etch, will the
> SMP kernel work with all 16 cores?  What is actually the current limit of
> cores (CPUs) that the 2.6.18 (or newer) kernel will support?
> 
> Thanks much,
> Robert
> 
> 
> 

don't expect things to go 16x faster



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