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Updated: January 2020

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For RHEL 5.10 in an Eight-Socket System Set maxcpus to 160 (16734123)

For RHEL 5.10 XEN, if your server has eight sockets, it might crash.

Workaround

Add the following text to the xen.gz line in /boot/grub/menu.1st:

maxcpus=160

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