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On Sunday 01 February 2004 23:10, Robert G. Waycott wrote:
> Hey Gentoo Users. I am sure that there are some dual-Xeon users out there,
> so I'd like your input. I am putting together a dual 2.0GHz Xeon rig
> here--Foster core--with 1Gb RDRAM on an IWill DP400 mainboard. Anybody have
> experience with these? 

For sure, but not me :)

> Do they run well on Gentoo? 

Gentoo is Linux, and Linux has had SMP support for donkeys years.
I do have 2 dual Xeon boxes at work, unfortunantly the company distro of 
choice is Suse. Luckily this choice is only for web platform boxes I don't 
admin (which the dual xeons are), the firewalls, mailservers, and other 
office bound servers are mine so run gentoo as I get time to reinstall them.
Getting back to the point, the dual Xeons perform nicely and due to HT the OS 
sees 4 CPU's.

> Right now, my system is  
> a dual Pentium-III 933MHz rig, so everything on my system has been built
> with -march=pentium3. I am assuming that I will need to change to
> -march=pentium4, since these are Pentium4 Xeons, right? 

They are, but pentium3 is fine.

> Anything else I 
> should think about? 

Nope.

> Any suggestions for the CFLAGS? 

May aswell leave them as is.

> Just to double check  
> myself, I will need to rebuild the whole system, right?

Nope, just add SMP (and whatever other new hardware) support, and you are good 
to go.

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Mike Williams
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