On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 07:30:19AM -0800, Joel Jaeggli wrote: > On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Axel Jerabek wrote: > > > but will it support 4 processors too? > > The kernel is agnostic about how many proccessors you have have, you have > either one or more than one. That's not exactly right, SMP kernels support up to CONFIG_NR_CPUS cpus, which is a kernel config setting. The x86-64 kernels in Fedora have this set to 8, on other architectures it is more (but 8 is the maximum of Opteron 84x chips you can have in one box AFAIK). Jakub