There are some error such as "WARNING: NR_CPUS limit of 8 reached. Processor ignored." found in dmesg, how to handle that?

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Issue

There is an Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 box with 16 cpu cores processors, only 8 cpu cores are recognized by smp kernel.  There are also some error such as "WARNING: NR_CPUS limit of 8 reached. Processor ignored." found in dmesg.

Environment

Red Hat Enterpirse Linux 4 with smp kernel

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