Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: David Fellows <fellows@×××.ca>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Upgrade from single to dual core CPU
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:17:32
Message-Id: 200601251615.k0PGFhlv019151@mailserv.unb.ca
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Upgrade from single to dual core CPU by B Vance
1 > On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 16:22 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
2 > > On Wednesday 25 January 2006 15:51, Richard Fish wrote:
3 > > > On 1/24/06, B Vance <bvance@×××××.ca> wrote:
4 > > > > anything else that needs to be changed for the change over? IE: Anythin
5 > g
6 > > > > added to CFLAGS/USE?
7 >
8 > I should be safe from OOM. I have 3Gig RAM installed. With AMD's
9 > HyperSomethingorother that pretends to be a CPU, would it be any benefit
10 > to set the MAKEOPTS to -j4? 2 Cores + 2 Virtual CPUs?
11 >
12 > Thanks again for all the assistance and knowledge (Even the ones that
13 > get a tad long winded.. :-) )
14 >
15 > B. Vance
16 One last thought:
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18 AMD + SMP + (2.6.9 < Kernel < 2.6.13) == Bad News
19
20 See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4851
21
22 So use a recent kernel.
23
24 Dave F
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