Re: [gentoo-user] Dual or Quad CPU complications?

[Rafa Griman]

On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann
<volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 12. Dezember 2012, 22:12:18 schrieb Grant:
>> I've only ever used systems with a single CPU.  I'm looking for a new host
>> for a dedicated server (suggestions?) and it looks like I'll probably
>> choose a machine with two or four CPUs.  What sort of complications does
>> that add to set up and/or maintenance with Gentoo?
>
> none
>
> also, forget numa. You won't deal with douzends of cores each using local
> memory and acccession the memory managed by the other cores.


It depends on his application, maybe his application does benefit on
NUMA architecture. Until we don't know what he's running, we can't
really say this or that architecture/technology is of no use ;)

So Volker, what applications are you running (and BTW: what volume of
data are you managing, how many users, ...)? This will helps us help
you :)

   Rafa