[Asterisk-Users] Digium Quad Span Cards

[Peter Svensson]

On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Adam Goryachev wrote:

> Just wondering, but does the AMD multi CPU architecture improve the
> interrupt handling? My understanding of that architecture is that each
> CPU can deal with "it's own" PCI bus/interrupts/etc independently of
> each other, and also with their own memory/etc? Would this improve the
> scalability? In fact, would a multi-PCI bus system by itself 'solve' the
> problem?

Beware that not all multi cpu Opteron motherboards are created equal. 
Quite a few connect all their pci busses to one cpu. A good motherboard 
will distribute the pci busses across the cpus. 

Read http://www.samag.com/documents/s=9408/sam0411b/0411b.htm for good and 
bad examples and a list of things to watch out for when purchasing an 
Opteron system.

Peter