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From: Florian Philipp <lists@×××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Dual or Quad CPU complications?
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 07:38:16
Message-Id: 50C98588.9080409@binarywings.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Dual or Quad CPU complications? by Alan McKinnon
1 Am 13.12.2012 07:23, schrieb Alan McKinnon:
2 > On Wed, 12 Dec 2012 22:12:18 -0800
3 > Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote:
4 >
5 >> I've only ever used systems with a single CPU. I'm looking for a new
6 >> host for a dedicated server (suggestions?) and it looks like I'll
7 >> probably choose a machine with two or four CPUs. What sort of
8 >> complications does that add to set up and/or maintenance with Gentoo?
9 >
10 > No complication.
11 >
12 > Configure CONFIG_SMP in the the kernel for multicore.
13 > Everything else is transparent.
14 >
15 > Cores make threads work better, so you'd want to investigate if
16 > USE="threads" is useful for you.
17 >
18 >
19
20 I think he's looking for advice on NUMA, not SMP.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Dual or Quad CPU complications? "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org>
Re: [gentoo-user] Dual or Quad CPU complications? Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com>