20 Apr
                
                    2008
                
            
            
                20 Apr
                
                '08
                
            
            
            
        
    
                5:31 p.m.
            
        On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas@archlinux.org> wrote:
Have a look at: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=47390
According to the kernel configuration help, increasing the maximum number of CPUs from 4 to 8 will make the kernel 32KB bigger with no performance decrease.
Opinions?
I'd always rather these things go through the ML or a feature request, rather than a forum post. That way someone can actually trace the process. Sounds fine to me, although I don't think there is any point on i686 (who would run >4 cores there?). x86_64 makes sense though. -Dan