CPU limits on the different versions of RHEL?

Fri Sep 7 01:22:33 UTC 2007

On Thu, 6 Sep 2007, David Miller wrote:

> In the product comparison on the Red Hat site they have some hardware and 
> software limits listed for each version of RHEL. For RHEL4 & 5 workstation 
> they have a Physical CPU limit of two. Yet I have a Dell Poweredge 6800 and a 
> 6600 with four physical Intel xeons(hyperthreading on each CPU) running 
> RHEL4.x WS just fine. Top and /proc/cpuinfo show all eight cores. Why do they 
> list these limits if they don't really exist?
>
> http://www.redhat.com/rhel/compare/#desktop

These are support limits.  Nothing more.  They are not technical limits.