At Wed, 22 Nov 2006 14:48:39 +0530, "SK malik" <srikrishanmalik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > [1 <text/plain; ISO-8859-1 (7bit)>] > HI, > Does any body have any idea about the maximum number of CPUs that Linux > can support. > I could find some experiments being done on 8 way machines. Can it support > more than that, > what about a 48 way?? Maximum number of CPUs are depend on arch. For example: o i386 is 255. http://lxr.linux.no/source/arch/i386/Kconfig#L210 o ia64 is 1024. http://lxr.linux.no/source/arch/ia64/Kconfig#L251 Thanks, MUNE -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
