From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05C311381F3 for ; Fri, 14 Dec 2012 08:02:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7BBE021C0AE; Fri, 14 Dec 2012 08:02:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ee0-f53.google.com (mail-ee0-f53.google.com [74.125.83.53]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B5B3A21C0A5 for ; Fri, 14 Dec 2012 08:01:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ee0-f53.google.com with SMTP id c50so1820692eek.40 for ; Fri, 14 Dec 2012 00:00:59 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=1/DNgyPNryd1XLjRDHGo06vhN2VwB1ekVEQxd4ID66Q=; b=ENa0cmNwU6Ob9I4TfNvC1lPGTi83kg3eC+1jIFmPpqXZys2TvaUBYNnbkyizlqc1ON ukiMDSHbzUbw2MBD1H+6JS4tXd3AIEyqEQLfDFEFmFwaw/+U8z/AAKsiazj8rmN9WeOI 7TH2GK/kR1ipIZ8w08fVXCCj6IgPHmiGP0SRBNizj5p4t7QPLQ1qzhck+SdrWCOtlrK7 OnLhchPIJOK7PY05N27nXp7eBsxouTT2czmSVt4TiCMqbjzuR6lGF7iKb2iFozRdG62r COWx+SNrAhEgKn4PlHcwUIrqLjJWwXVFRpfjSBYoXDcvsSAqqgPuL2l31r0ovH2ObS0r qXlg== 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 Received: by 10.14.205.199 with SMTP id j47mr12820525eeo.26.1355472059384; Fri, 14 Dec 2012 00:00:59 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.223.158.68 with HTTP; Fri, 14 Dec 2012 00:00:59 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <4306054.0dMEylK9kK@localhost> Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 00:00:59 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Dual or Quad CPU complications? From: Grant To: Gentoo mailing list Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=047d7b34388e9a429304d0cb6eda X-Archives-Salt: ee4375f5-8f6f-444a-b600-eacf18ec86d9 X-Archives-Hash: c32e56435b025d56b05a731b94b48978 --047d7b34388e9a429304d0cb6eda Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > >> 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? > > > > none > > > > also, forget numa. You won't deal with douzends of cores each using local > > memory and acccession the memory managed by the other cores. > > > It depends on his application, maybe his application does benefit on > NUMA architecture. Until we don't know what he's running, we can't > really say this or that architecture/technology is of no use ;) > > So Volker, what applications are you running (and BTW: what volume of > data are you managing, how many users, ...)? This will helps us help > you :) > > Rafa It's an apache2/mysql server with a medium amount of traffic. - Grant --047d7b34388e9a429304d0cb6eda Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > >> I've only ever used systems with a single CPU. =A0I'm= looking for a new host
> >> for a dedicated server (suggestion= s?) and it looks like I'll probably
> >> choose a machine w= ith two or four CPUs. =A0What sort of complications does
> >> that add to set up and/or maintenance with Gentoo?
> &g= t;
> > none
> >
> > also, forget numa. You won&#= 39;t deal with douzends of cores each using local
> > memory and a= cccession the memory managed by the other cores.
>
>
> It depends on his application, maybe his application d= oes benefit on
> NUMA architecture. Until we don't know what he&#= 39;s running, we can't
> really say this or that architecture/tec= hnology is of no use ;)
>
> So Volker, what applications are you running (and BTW: what vo= lume of
> data are you managing, how many users, ...)? This will help= s us help
> you :)
>
> =A0 =A0Rafa

It's a= n apache2/mysql server with a medium amount of traffic.

- Grant
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