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Re: [News] Rumour: Google Experiments with OpenSolaris

  • Subject: Re: [News] Rumour: Google Experiments with OpenSolaris
  • From: JEDIDIAH <jedi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 09:22:13 -0500
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Superfeed.net
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On 2006-09-22, thad01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <thad01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>> I have heard it said that OpenSolaris scales better to lots of CPUs than
>> Linux (currently) does--more fine-grained parallelism in the kernel.
>  
> Perhaps google is looking for someone to help improve the high end
> scalability of Linux?  Improve the multiprocessor support maybe?
> It makes sense to fish of off Sun's pier if thats the type of talent
> you are looking for.

	Linux already scales to more CPUs than Solaris does.

	1024 vs 120.

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