Am 13.12.2012 07:12, 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? > > - Grant >
If you want to run mysql with high memory usage on that machine, you might want to read http://blog.jcole.us/2010/09/28/mysql-swap-insanity-and-the-numa-architecture/ Everything else that I can think of already has beed said. Oh, tweak MAKEOPTS for a faster compile time, you also might want to look at emerges --jobs and --load-average parameters