[TriLUG] Questions about Threading

[Chris Hedemark]

Jeremy P said:
> I've seen quad-CPU Linux systems, so it's definitely not a max of 2.

I've seen a lot more than that.  I've seen an 8 way that I can talk about.
And I've seen a 16 way and 32 way that I cannot.

> I think the limitation is more related to motherboard availability for
> Intel processors, rather than than the Linux kernel.

Note that I'm not necessarily talking about Intel processors.