Re: [tlug] Linux on Sun Fire X4600

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

Neil Millar writes:

 > We run a 16 core machine on the same image as 2 core machines
 > and don't need to do anything special for things like the extra
 > processors, etc.

ISTR something on recent lkml that said that the core guys (including
Linus) are satisfied with Linux's scalability to at 16 cores (maybe it
was 64).  Of course that's self-praise, but on the other hand that is
going to be based on braoder criteria than a random microbenchmark.