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 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. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan <iain at netspace dot net dot au> <Manoj> I *like* the chicken -- [email protected] mailing list
