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From: "Martin J. Bligh" <Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com>
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>> Really?  So then people should be designing for 128 CPU machines, right?
> 
> Linux only supports 99 CPUs.  At 100, "ksoftirqd_CPU100" overflows
> task_struct.comm[].
> 
> Just thought I'd sneak in that helpful observation.

For machines that are 99bit architectures or more, maybe. For 32 bit machines,
your limit is 32, for 64 bit, 64.

M.

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