On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
>On 11 Jun 2002, Robert Love wrote:
>
>| Here are the defaults I picked:
>|
>| CONFIG_NR_CPUS=32: i386, mips, parisc, ppc, sparc
>
>I don't know what is "typical" for non-x86, but for x86, why not
>use something more like a 'typical' NR_CPUS for SMP, like 8 (?)...
>why still waste all of that memory?
Perhaps it's just because I'm coming in late, but I cannot understand why
NR_CPUS cannot be as low as 4 by default, for all archs, and then in the
kernel boot messages, should more be found than is configured for a message is
emitted to say "reconfigure your kernel", and continue with the number it was
configured for. I personally only rarely see 2-way boxes, 4-way is pretty
rare, and anything more must surely count as very specialized.
Let the defaults be reasonable for 99% of users (IMO 99.9%), and let the rest
have to think about config options...
Ruth
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