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Symmetric multiprocessing (SMP)

Symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) involves a symmetric multiprocessor system hardware and software architecture where two or more identical processors connect to a single, shared main memory, have full access to all I/O devices, and are controlled by a single operating system instance that treats all processors equally, reserving none for special purposes. Most multiprocessor systems today use an SMP architecture. In the case of multi-core processors, the SMP architecture applies to the cores, treating them as separate processors.

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Does FreeBSD suffer from SMP issues?

This is not a FreeBSD vs [insert favorite linux server distro]. My interest is in knowing the why and how to remedy sch issues if they exist. Primarily, I'm looking to implement a FreeSwitch based PBX for the local Red Cross hospital. Me being me,…
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24 Core LAMP Issue

I have a 24 Core Opteron 8435 system with 48GB of RAM. However, the performance is way below that of our 6 Core Intel with 30GB of RAM. I wonder if anyone could this of why? We're running a Drupal website off this box with mysql 5.0 installed on the…
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Emulate a SMP server with a Linux Cluster?

Is it possible to combine a few machines into a cluster and have it appears as a single server? For example, with such a cluster we can run a 32-thread CPU-bound process on 8 quad-core machines. Are there any existing software that would allow this?…
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How to know when the kernel was last compiled?

I have installed a linux distro and I "think" it is vulnerable to kernel exploits. I have to update kernel but I need to know if it is really compiled in year 2003? How can I know if additional updates are made to the kernel? Linux gandalf…
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How to calculate the QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) bandwidth?

For Xeon E5-2697 v2, Intel lists: Bus Speed = 8 GT/s # of QPI Links = 2 According to Wikipedia, one must know the QPI frequency and link width to calculate the QPI bandwidth, but these don't seem to be listed here. How to calculate it then?
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Host CPU use optimization on KVM

I've done KVM based virtualization setup with following configuration. HOST Machine ---------------- OS: CentOS 6.6 (64-bit) CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5606 @ 2.13GHz RAM: 32 GBs Disk: 2 TBs (LVM-based) CPU support hardware virutalization & its…
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