supericy

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It’s clickbait and doesn’t have any real impact. It just effects the amount of time each process has before being preempted for multi tasking. You wouldn’t want this number to scale to a large number even with a large number of cores.

The Linux kernel supports using more than 8 cores.

(*not an expert and this is just from reading around a bit)