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

[Alexander Gretencord <arutha@gmx.de>]

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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