[gentoo-amd64] Is there any difference with 4 core?

2007-08-01 Thread P.V.Anthony
Hi, Need some more advice. Now the question is, is it better to go with 2 core or 4 core? The reason for this question is, that I heard there is a diminishing return with more cores. Not sure if this is true with kernel 2.6.21 and running at 64bit. The server needed to built is for the

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Is there any difference with 4 core?

2007-08-01 Thread Wil Reichert
On 8/1/07, P.V.Anthony [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Need some more advice. Now the question is, is it better to go with 2 core or 4 core? The reason for this question is, that I heard there is a diminishing return with more cores. Not sure if this is true with kernel 2.6.21 and running at

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Is there any difference with 4 core?

2007-08-01 Thread Bob Sanders
P.V.Anthony, mused, then expounded: Hi, Need some more advice. Now the question is, is it better to go with 2 core or 4 core? The reason for this question is, that I heard there is a diminishing return with more cores. Not sure if this is true with kernel 2.6.21 and running at 64bit.

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Is there any difference with 4 core?

2007-08-01 Thread P.V.Anthony
On this day, 01-August-2007 11:27 PM, Wil Reichert wrote: Whether a dual core will work well for your situation completely depends on the load and usage patterns. Is this for a server or development machine? Whatever you do, DO NOT buy a pentium 4 dual core. This is for a web and email

Re: [gentoo-amd64] 2nd HDD for var, tmp, usr/portage, swap

2007-08-01 Thread Bernhard Auzinger
Am Freitag 20 Juli 2007 schrieb Richard Freeman: Bernhard Auzinger wrote: My question is if it makes sence to move these partitions to another harddisk? Others have responded to this well already - one thing I might add is to check out lvm if you have so many drives. Once you've used it

Re: [gentoo-amd64] 2nd HDD for var, tmp, usr/portage, swap

2007-08-01 Thread Richard Freeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bernhard Auzinger wrote: Just for the record. I decided to go LVM2 :). It runs since 10 days and I'm very happy with it. The setup was very quick and easy. For a few seconds I thought of buying a few more harddisks. Not because of the space,

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Is there any difference with 4 core?

2007-08-01 Thread Martin Nielsen
P.V.Anthony skrev: Hi, Need some more advice. Now the question is, is it better to go with 2 core or 4 core? Hi, Are you absolutely certain that your server can even max out cpu-wise? I've found in 99.99% of the cases it's usually other problems; not enough ram, io or simply wrongly

[gentoo-amd64] Re: Is there any difference with 4 core?

2007-08-01 Thread Duncan
P.V.Anthony [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 23:16:37 +0800: Now the question is, is it better to go with 2 core or 4 core? The reason for this question is, that I heard there is a diminishing return with more cores. Not sure if this is true