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Why MAKEOPTS="j4"? I've read somewhere that MAKEOPTS should be |
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number-of-CPUs + 1 so it'd be "j3" in this case... |
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Or is this the same thing like most of the CFLAGS optimizations (i.e. |
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you gotta try for yourself and stick with the one you presonaly like the |
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most :))? |
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--jd |
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Lance Albertson wrote: |
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> Nick Van Vlaenderen wrote: |
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>>Hi all, |
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>>I am going to install Gentoo Linux on a server with a Pentium IV CPU |
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>>with Hyper-Threading. My question is, does anyone has experience with |
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>>that kind of servers? I know that I need to enable SMP in the kernel, |
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>>but do I need to use something specific to make Gentoo use the 2 virtual |
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>>CPU's and not only one? And how can I have better performance .. and so on? |
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> Just change MAKEOPTS="j4" or something like that. Other than that, afaik, the |
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> application just needs to have smp support in order to use both processors. |
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> There might be something else you'll need to enable to do more things, but I |
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> think that's basically it. Just enable SMP and change that setting in your |
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> make.conf for emerging. |
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> I have several HT enabled P4's here and they all work great! |
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