bhyve - lots of cores

Rodney W. Grimes freebsd-rwg at gndrsh.dnsmgr.net
Wed Nov 27 14:38:43 UTC 2019


> does anyone have FreeBSD running host with LOTS of cores (>=32) and allow 
> me to run short test of bhyve?
> 
> I would like to know
> 
> a) does bhyve have scaling limits.
> b) can does windows 7 x64 (which is for what i use bhyve :) run 
> efficiently on this.
> 
> At least up to 12 cores i see no issues both with bhyve and windows 7.

Since you are running on 11.3 I would need to verify some patches
that are needed to get above 24 cores are infact in 11.3.

The VM_MAXCPU cleanup I did was verified with a 32 core box, and
has run a over commit vCPU count of 254, though that is not usable
in any shape.


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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org


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