From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=DMARC_QUAR,FREEMAIL_FROM, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,NICE_REPLY_A,RDNS_DYNAMIC autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from tharkserver.tharknet.lotr (pD958823B.dip.t-dialin.net [217.88.130.59]) by chiba.3jane.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 055F4ABAE5 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 14:30:39 -0500 (CDT) Received: from tharkun.tharknet.lotr (tharkun.tharknet.lotr [192.168.168.200]) by tharkserver.tharknet.lotr (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB6B11D5400 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 21:30:30 +0200 (CEST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Alexander Gretencord To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Upgrade, course of action. Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 21:30:20 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.2 References: <2301.12.247.253.40.1030094569.squirrel@sc.am> In-Reply-To: <2301.12.247.253.40.1030094569.squirrel@sc.am> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200208232130.20064.arutha@gmx.de> Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux developer list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: X-Archives-Salt: 0dfd0cab-f6c2-4eaf-a490-429b5232c5a1 X-Archives-Hash: 3a2e2f713a450e7b791fdc4c72aaea13 On Friday 23 August 2002 11:22, Gregg wrote: > I run a server, it hosts 127 websites. Has many users for various othe= r 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 . T= his > 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 compi= le=20 your system with athlon optimizations afterwards but that's even more bra= ve=20 than simply running a production system on gcc3 :) Btw. for servers more CPUs is better than one fast CPU. Think about it: O= ne=20 fast CPU you have to serve 2 requests. One request gets the CPU for time = x=20 then the sheduler decides that the second request gets cpu time and so fo= rth=20 until both requests are served. With 2 CPUs both requests can be served i= n=20 parallel (really parallel not that pseudo parallelism the sheduler gets o= ut=20 of your one cpu). Alex --=20 "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary saf= ety=20 deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin