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Re: CPU limits on the different versions of RHEL?

From: Karl Latiss <karl.latiss(at)atvert.com.au>
Date: Thu Sep 06 2007 - 21:13:35 EDT


On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 16:42 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> In the product comparison on the Red Hat site they have some hardware
> and software limits listed for each version of RHEL. For RHEL4 & 5
> workstation they have a Physical CPU limit of two. Yet I have a Dell
> Poweredge 6800 and a 6600 with four physical Intel xeons
> (hyperthreading on each CPU) running RHEL4.x WS just fine. Top and /
> proc/cpuinfo show all eight cores. Why do they list these limits if
> they don't really exist?
>
> http://www.redhat.com/rhel/compare/#desktop

I think these are limits as they relate to support. If you ask Redhat for support with your hardware configuration they wont give it to you.

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Karl Latiss 
Atvert Systems

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