public inbox for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
Search results ordered by [date|relevance]  view[summary|nested|Atom feed]
thread overview below | download: 
* Re: [gentoo-user] Dual or Quad CPU complications?
  @ 2012-12-13  6:23 99% ` Alan McKinnon
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 1+ results
From: Alan McKinnon @ 2012-12-13  6:23 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

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.


-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com



^ permalink raw reply	[relevance 99%]

Results 1-1 of 1 | reverse | options above
-- pct% links below jump to the message on this page, permalinks otherwise --
2012-12-13  6:12     [gentoo-user] Dual or Quad CPU complications? Grant
2012-12-13  6:23 99% ` Alan McKinnon

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox