Re: UVM wait states

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 12:31:29PM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
> 
> Most if us would just still see the /digit form, because most of us don't
> have that many processors...
> 
> For those lucky few with > 64, we might assume that they're rick enough to
> have colour displays, and enough cpu bandwidth to waste a little, and choose
> different colour combinations (fg&bg) for the "/n" pair of chars.  That
> should expand the name space to allow more than enough for now.

Shockingly, Dell 810 systems with 64 cores/128 threads can be had on
eBay for under $2000.  These can be taken to 80 cores/160 threads,
but those CPUs are $600 each, and 4 of them would be required.

Still, that's 4 year old used stuff.  Equivalent new Intel server
processors are at 14 or 18 cores.  Servers with hundreds of cores
are going to be common soon.

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  Thor Lancelot Simon	                                     tls%panix.com@localhost

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