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On Thu, 2011-07-07 at 17:25 +0530, Mahesh J Salgaonkar wrote:
> > I guess I'm asking is, do smaller P7 machines boot? And if so, is there
> > any difference except size?
>=20
> Yes, the smaller P7 machine that I have with 20 CPUs and 2GB ram boots
> fine with 3.0.0-rc.=20

That sounds like a single node machine. P7 comes as {4,6,8}*4 (16,24,32
cpus) per socket. And that 2G doesn't sound like much either.

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On Thu, 2011-07-07 at 17:25 +0530, Mahesh J Salgaonkar wrote:
> > I guess I'm asking is, do smaller P7 machines boot? And if so, is there
> > any difference except size?
> 
> Yes, the smaller P7 machine that I have with 20 CPUs and 2GB ram boots
> fine with 3.0.0-rc. 

That sounds like a single node machine. P7 comes as {4,6,8}*4 (16,24,32
cpus) per socket. And that 2G doesn't sound like much either.