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Re:We're migrating many of our servers from Linux to FreeBSD by ksec on Monday January 24, 2022 @10:12PM (#30067445)
Is that with CX7 and Dual Socket AMD CPU you mentioned awhile ago? ( I remember it was lost in delivery or some supply chain issues )

Or is that Single CPU? Because I thought you try to avoid the complexity of NUMA. Which I remember it was causing issues with first gen Zen.

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Re:We're migrating many of our servers from Linux to FreeBSD by drewg123 on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @09:10AM (#30071930)
4x CX6-DX in a dual-socket Rome.

Its mostly an experimental platform, never intended for production, to shake out issues that we'll see when next generation platforms show up with DDR5 and PCIe Gen5. With a current single-socket setup we'd be limited by memory bandwidth around 500Gb/s or so, but 800Gb/s should hopefully be within reach from a single socket with DDR5 based servers. Especially since the limiting factor now is the traffic on the xGMI links between the sockets is unbalanced.

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