On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 10:54:30AM -0400, Wesley Darlington mentioned:
> > In the Kernel source, it's supposed to "Scale well to 4 CPUs". If we are
> > talking about a fairly CPU bound job, should it matter if there are 8 ?
> Don't know about whether linux and oct-xeon (Like that phrase!) boxes
> go together, but penguin (http://www.penguincomputing.com/) sell
> eight-way xeon linux boxes. I guess that means it works, at least kinda.
> The 128MB of level three cache gives me a warm fuzzy feeling. :-)
Yeah, but they aren't using Intel's profusion chip, like Compaq and Dell -
they use NEC's 8-Xeon chipset.
Kate
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