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BurnedOutGeek
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Hello. I havent seen anyone mention this, but does the SMP kernel in Gentoo support more than 2 processors? I have several Quad Xeon mahinces that i would like to install Gentoo on. Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks... Mark |
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Liathus
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| Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2003 10:49 pm Post subject: |
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| i would assume so... easy to tell. Bootup the live cd with the smp option and see how many it detects :) |
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devon
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| Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2003 10:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Don't forget to use the "-j" option in your /etc/make.conf to take advantage of the multiple processors. Rule of them is "-j<# of processors + 1>" so in your case it would be "-j5". |
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taskara
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| Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2003 12:48 am Post subject: |
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| devon wrote: | | Don't forget to use the "-j" option in your /etc/make.conf to take advantage of the multiple processors. Rule of them is "-j<# of processors + 1>" so in your case it would be "-j5". |
where does one put this in the make.conf ?
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devon
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| Code: | # MAKEOPTS provides extra options that may be passed to 'make' when a
# program is compiled. Presently the only use is for specifying
# the number of parallel makes (-j) to perform. The suggested number
# for parallel makes is CPUs+1.
#MAKEOPTS="-j2" |
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taskara
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| Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2003 8:43 am Post subject: |
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AHHHHH thanks mate! 
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| Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2003 8:58 am Post subject: Re: Quad Processor? |
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| BurnedOutGeek wrote: | Hello. I havent seen anyone mention this, but does the SMP kernel in Gentoo support more than 2 processors? I have several Quad Xeon mahinces that i would like to install Gentoo on. Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks... Mark |
Kernel on gentoo is the same gnu/linux kernel you can download from kernel.org, and it suports up to 8 I think, sorry just awake up;)
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