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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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