> >> 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