From: Florian Philipp <lists@binarywings.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Dual or Quad CPU complications?
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 08:36:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50C98588.9080409@binarywings.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121213082346.7b6bae37@khamul.example.com>
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Am 13.12.2012 07:23, schrieb Alan McKinnon:
> On Wed, 12 Dec 2012 22:12:18 -0800
> Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I've only ever used systems with a single CPU. I'm looking for a new
>> host for a dedicated server (suggestions?) and it looks like I'll
>> probably choose a machine with two or four CPUs. What sort of
>> complications does that add to set up and/or maintenance with Gentoo?
>
> No complication.
>
> Configure CONFIG_SMP in the the kernel for multicore.
> Everything else is transparent.
>
> Cores make threads work better, so you'd want to investigate if
> USE="threads" is useful for you.
>
>
I think he's looking for advice on NUMA, not SMP.
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Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-13 6:12 [gentoo-user] Dual or Quad CPU complications? Grant
2012-12-13 6:23 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-12-13 7:36 ` Florian Philipp [this message]
2012-12-13 7:44 ` J. Roeleveld
2012-12-13 13:01 ` Luis Gustavo Vilela de Oliveira
2012-12-13 13:14 ` Rafa Griman
2012-12-13 14:13 ` Bruce Hill
2012-12-15 0:40 ` Mick
2012-12-15 11:49 ` Florian Philipp
2012-12-14 7:43 ` Grant
2012-12-14 8:47 ` Rafa Griman
2012-12-14 9:44 ` Grant
2012-12-14 10:03 ` Rafa Griman
2012-12-14 22:26 ` Grant
2012-12-15 3:16 ` Grant
2012-12-15 3:25 ` Michael Mol
2012-12-15 12:40 ` Florian Philipp
2012-12-15 17:56 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-12-13 15:55 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2012-12-14 7:53 ` Rafa Griman
2012-12-13 18:18 ` [gentoo-user] " Michael Hampicke
2012-12-13 18:22 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-12-14 7:55 ` Rafa Griman
2012-12-14 8:00 ` Grant
2012-12-15 17:49 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-12-15 19:46 ` Grant
2012-12-15 19:57 ` J. Roeleveld
2012-12-16 12:52 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-12-16 15:39 ` J. Roeleveld
2012-12-16 15:58 ` Michael Mol
2012-12-17 7:00 ` J. Roeleveld
2012-12-17 9:09 ` Michael Mol
2012-12-17 10:29 ` J. Roeleveld
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