From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JZLKD-0006nF-45 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 07:24:33 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BB3D8E0531; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 07:24:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.netspace.net.au (mail-out3.netspace.net.au [203.10.110.76]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6502AE0531 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 07:24:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [172.16.0.52] (ppp246-231.static.internode.on.net [203.122.246.231]) by mail.netspace.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4E6A4C0A for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:24:28 +1100 (EST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo From: Iain Buchanan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <47D64CED.6040907@bellsouth.net> References: <47D6333E.9020003@ihug.co.nz> <47D63653.8080000@bellsouth.net> <47D6373B.1070804@konstantinhansen.de> <20080311084146.78701df8@loonquawl.digimed.co.uk> <47D64CED.6040907@bellsouth.net> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:53:40 +0930 Message-Id: <1205306620.14736.37.camel@orpheus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ae58a06a-11e0-4923-8fa2-aa51c1b63707 X-Archives-Hash: 4adf023c3be72d68d809b5354e5bbece On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 04:12 -0500, Dale wrote: > I would love to build a rig with two dual core CPUs, 4 cores in all. > Compile times would be pretty short. ;-) Woooooo Ooooooo. I just installed Gentoo on a quad-core dual-cpu Xeon E5420 (2.50GHz). 8Gb RAM, 800Gb raid. It's not mine - I've only convinced the sysadmin to let me play until it needs to be used for something real (what a waste to have those cpu's doing nothing, I thought, so let's install Gentoo :) MAKEOPTS="-j9" ... -- Iain Buchanan "The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was." -- Walt West -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list