Gentoo Archives: gentoo-server

From: stephen white <steve@×××××××××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] Gentoo on Pentium IV with Hyper-Threading
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 14:53:55
Message-Id: 59DCE44A-79A3-11D8-A345-000393BF1228@cs.adelaide.edu.au
In Reply to: [gentoo-server] Gentoo on Pentium IV with Hyper-Threading by Nick Van Vlaenderen
1 On 19/03/2004, at 1:05 AM, Nick Van Vlaenderen wrote:
2 > I am going to install Gentoo Linux on a server with a Pentium IV CPU
3 > with Hyper-Threading. My question is, does anyone has experience with
4 > that kind of servers?
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6 I have about 70 machines with these CPUs, all work fine. You don't have
7 to do anything special to make it work since the kernel already enables
8 SMP by default.
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10 The advice about make -j4 is specifically for making the kernel compile
11 faster and has no effect on generated code or subsequent behaviour.
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