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Data bandwidth probably

• e12e 8y ago
  Bandwidth and reliability. It's in general hard to swap out cpus while running db transactions on commodity x86 hw.
  • dfox 8y ago
    In theory you can hot-swap CPUs on x86 (with slightly hillarious fact that primary use of the Linux's CPU hotswap support is suspend to disk on laptops) but hardware that supports it and it really works is rare to non-existent.