-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Iain Buchanan wrote:
>On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 15:52 -0800, gentuxx wrote: > >>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>Hash: SHA1 >> >>Hi all, >> >>Just wondering if anyone here has any experience with gentoo on a 4/8 >>CPU server. I say "4/8" because we're looking at Xeons that'll, at a >>minimum, have HT but could possibly be dual-core. > > >If you have the choice, go for dual core! HT is nice to look at (I have >it on my laptop) but it's nowhere near as fast a dual core, because you >still only have one cpu. Although you pay for dual core of course... I do have a choice! ;-) Based on Bob Sanders' comments, I'm going to do a little more research of Opterons, Xeons, and 4+ way computing. > >> I run gentoo on a >>P4 w/ HT and it runs great! But I have no idea how it will scale to >>this many processors. > > >AFAIK, linux scales very well to many processors. You have some >different kernel options to configure, some playing with MAKEOPTS=-j9 >(sounds fun :), etc. > >> I've done some preliminary googling, but >>haven't come up with much....probably using the wrong search terms. > > >you're probably more interested in linux performance on multiple cpus, >rather than gentoo performace, as its the kernel that will run >particular processes on particular cpus. > >>Base anticipated specs below: >> >>4x 3.66Ghz Intel Xeons >>8GB RAM >>0.9 TB Disk (4x 300GB Ultra360 drives in RAID5) > > >make a second one for me :) > >>I would appreciate any insights, comments, advice, etc. > > >I think your biggest problem will be buying hardware pieces that are >compatible with each other (unless its already built) and making sure >linux has modules for the particular hardware you want. Well, I'm getting this through a vendor. So I know the parts will be compatible with each other. The interesting question is will there be drivers/modules. I have built gentoo on these systems before without too much trouble, but not one spec'd out this way. The chassis is an HP DL580. > >HTH, - -- gentux echo "hfouvyAdpy/ofu" | perl -pe 's/(.)/chr(ord($1)-1)/ge' gentux's gpg fingerprint ==> 34CE 2E97 40C7 EF6E EC40 9795 2D81 924A 6996 0993 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD6qmyLYGSSmmWCZMRAr/eAJ41nZfswC3ojPNPqFyvHyg23f+MmgCgo3IM E3LOLdbiITQaSoZ6/3aNkj4= =I+Ir -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
