Re: [gentoo-dev] Upgrade, course of action.

["Gregg" <gregg@sc.am>]

Lets say this is a learning experience.  I feel like learning to be brave
than learning to be behind (why I chose gentoo over debian.)  :)

Gregg

> On Friday 23 August 2002 11:22, Gregg wrote:
>> I run a server, it hosts 127 websites.  Has many users for various
>> other
>
> And you really host that on a gcc 3 system ? Brave :)
>
>> my flags in the configuration files.  So it is all just i686 in the
>> c*flags.  I want to go up to an athlon 2200.  So, what do I need to
>> consider before switching them out, what do I need to do afterword .
>> This is a 1.3b_test system with all the latest updates (except gcc
>> 3.2, I am still on 3.1.1)
>
> Just leave it "as is" and upgrade your hw. You can of course try to
> compile  your system with athlon optimizations afterwards but that's
> even more brave  than simply running a production system on gcc3 :)
>
> Btw. for servers more CPUs is better than one fast CPU. Think about it:
> One  fast CPU you have to serve 2 requests. One request gets the CPU for
> time x  then the sheduler decides that the second request gets cpu time
> and so forth  until both requests are served. With 2 CPUs both requests
> can be served in  parallel (really parallel not that pseudo parallelism
> the sheduler gets out  of your one cpu).
>
>
> Alex
>
> --
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> safety  deserve neither liberty nor safety."
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