Re: Kernel Scalability

There are multiple 512 processor altix's in production. :)

Kevin

On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 20:56 +0800, Rajib Majumder wrote:
Hi,

I am wondering if 2.4.x/2.6.x kernel is scalable enough to run on
8-CPU hardware. Do we have any scalability comparison data between
2.4/2.6 kernels and beyond 4-CPU?

If yes, is the scalablity is near linear?

Any input is appreciated.

Thanks

Rajib
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