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Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2014 23:54:36 -0400 From: Nick Krause <xerofoify@...il.com> To: Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@...il.com>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: Scalability Question That's true. Cheers Nick On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 11:44 PM, Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 5:33 AM, Nick Krause <xerofoify@...il.com> wrote: >> The most powerful super computer runs Ubuntu with over 3.2 million cores. > > These kind of computers don't run a single kernel. > See grid computing. > >> There fore I can state that Linux is very good at scaling as I have seem >> the other side with embedded systems. >> Cheers Nick >> >> On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 11:24 PM, Mike Galbraith >> <umgwanakikbuti@...il.com> wrote: >>> On Fri, 2014-07-04 at 16:40 -0400, Nick Krause wrote: >>>> I am curious after reading some outdated kernel papers, how scalable >>>> is the kernel of >>>> late? I am curious mostly in memory and cpu subsystems as file systems >>>> will change >>>> based on user's choice. >>> >>> You can currently configure for up to 8192 CPUs. I've not seen any >>> benchmark data whatsoever for huge boxen, have no idea where which >>> subsystem crumbles. SGI asked for the increase to 8192, so presumably >>> do manage to squeeze acceptable performance out of size XXXXL boxen. >>> >>> -Mike >>> >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in >> the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >> Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > > > > -- > Thanks, > //richard -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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