Gentoo Archives: gentoo-alpha

From: Jay Maynard <jmaynard@g.o>
To: gentoo-alpha@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alpha] Installing on SMP box.
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 14:22:19
Message-Id: 20050911142200.GA16665@thebrain.conmicro.cx
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alpha] Installing on SMP box. by kloeri@gentoo.org
1 On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 04:16:10PM +0200, kloeri@g.o wrote:
2 > On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 07:11:03PM -0700, Jeff Donsbach wrote:
3 > > For USE flags... I'm not sure... I've never installed
4 > > Gentoo on an SMP box. (anyone? Bueller? anyone?)
5 > Just make sure to set MAKEOPTS="-jX" correctly and maybe USE="smp" if
6 > you use gimp.
7
8 Indeed. I've installed Gentoo on a couple of SMP boxes, and it Just Works,
9 as long as you remember to build the kernel with SMP support. You don't even
10 *have* to use MAKEOPTS="-j<number>", but if you don't, you won't exploit
11 more than one processor while building things.
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