Re: [gentoo-user] 4/8 CPU Gentoo server

2006-02-09 Thread kashani
gentuxx wrote: The main purpose of this box is going to be log crunching and archival. We have logs that range from tens of MBs to a GB a piece (uncompressed). The scripts running on it will be transferring (over the network), decompressing, grepping, normalizing, recompressing, and inserting

[gentoo-user] 4/8 CPU Gentoo server

2006-02-08 Thread gentuxx
-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. I run gentoo on a P4 w/ HT and it runs great! But I

Re: [gentoo-user] 4/8 CPU Gentoo server

2006-02-08 Thread Iain Buchanan
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

Re: [gentoo-user] 4/8 CPU Gentoo server

2006-02-08 Thread Dale Kirkley
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. I run gentoo on a P4 w/ HT and it runs great! But I have no idea how it will

Re: [gentoo-user] 4/8 CPU Gentoo server

2006-02-08 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 15:52:01 -0800 gentuxx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | 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. I run gentoo on a | P4 w/ HT and it

Re: [gentoo-user] 4/8 CPU Gentoo server

2006-02-08 Thread Bob Sanders
On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 15:52:01 -0800 gentuxx [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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've been running it for years on a 4P PIII Xeon and my take is I won't run more

Re: [gentoo-user] 4/8 CPU Gentoo server

2006-02-08 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bob Sanders wrote: On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 15:52:01 -0800 gentuxx [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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've been running it

Re: [gentoo-user] 4/8 CPU Gentoo server

2006-02-08 Thread gentuxx
-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

Re: [gentoo-user] 4/8 CPU Gentoo server

2006-02-08 Thread kashani
gentuxx wrote: 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. I run gentoo on a P4 w/ HT and it runs great! But I have no idea how it will scale

Re: [gentoo-user] 4/8 CPU Gentoo server

2006-02-08 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 kashani wrote: gentuxx wrote: 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. I run gentoo on a