欧可祺(Ho-Ki Au) wrote: > thanks. all information's useful. > is there a place where the maximum and minimum hardware configurations > for FC6 are documented? what i'm really drive at is i want to know how > many cpu's, 64 bit or 32 bit, how much memory, i can configure for my > system. is there any benchmark figures which shows how performance > scales with more hardware on FC6? Mark Knoop wrote: > http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/ > > I don't know of any benchmark figures. It's Linux. The minimum hardware figures are Fedora-specific (and in the release notes) because Fedora is compiled to expect at least an i586 processor and a certain amount of memory. But maximum hardware configurations are basically down to the kernel (and if you want something special, you can always configure it yourself). These days, the number of CPUs and amount of memory you can use is basically limited by the hardware available, although there are per-process address space limitations for 32-bit processes (inherent in the fact that they are 32 bit processes -- this is a limitation of mathematics and what's efficient, not Linux). If you're using a *really* big system (say more than eight physical processors or 32 GB of memory) you should probably post specifications (and Fedora may not be the operating system for you -- if you have a computer that expensive you'll probably want to keep it running, and the slower pace of change of RHEL or Centos may be a better solution). Hope this helps, James. -- E-mail: james@ | Alas, my sources don't report when the first spam was aprilcottage.co.uk | sent. Probably about 2,500 years ago, but it went via | Royal Mail and all I've seen so far is a "while you were | out" card pushed through the door this morning. | -- Peter Corlett
