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

[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

It's an apache2/mysql server with a medium amount of traffic.

- Grant