[SunHELP] Six processors?

[Mike Johnson]

Thank you all, the system works, booted up just fine...run prtconf and
shows all six processors...at the boot prompt I ran module-info and it
shows all six as well.


- Mike

On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Dave Garten wrote:

> 
> Yep.  Drill is one CPU per board or two CPU per board.  I have seen odd 
> numbers (3, 5, 7) function, but I'm not sure if it uses them all.  The S in 
> SMP is symmetric and Sun descries their multiprocessor machines as MPs 
> (without symmetric).  I'll be dipped if I know how to tell if its firing on 
> an uneven number.  The software will find 'em all in dmesg, but I presume 
> that isn't definitive.
> 
> Anybody know?
> 
> V/R
> 
> DG
> 
> 
> Mike Johnson <mikelist at sky.net> said:
> 
> > Is it possible to have a six processors system on the SparcServer 1000E?
> > (SS1000E - using 3 motherboards, 2 processors each...)  I thought the
> > convention was 2/4/8/16, etc.
> -- 
> Dave Garten
> dgarten at nova dot org
> dgarten at totalimage dot org
> 
> 
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