Re: [gentoo-user] 4/8 CPU Gentoo server

2006-02-09 Thread Bob Sanders
On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 18:27:25 -0800 gentuxx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm getting this box from a vendor, and I thought they had limited > options. We've always gone Intel before, and I'm relatively new to > this organization. I'm going to poke around for some benchmarks. I > would be inter

Re: [gentoo-user] 4/8 CPU Gentoo server

2006-02-09 Thread kashani
gentuxx wrote: The main purpose of this box is going to be log crunching and archival. We have logs that range from tens of MBs to a GB a piece (uncompressed). The scripts running on it will be transferring (over the network), decompressing, grepping, normalizing, recompressing, and inserting

Re: [gentoo-user] 4/8 CPU Gentoo server

2006-02-08 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 kashani wrote: > gentuxx wrote: > >> 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. I run

Re: [gentoo-user] 4/8 CPU Gentoo server

2006-02-08 Thread kashani
gentuxx wrote: 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. I run gentoo on a P4 w/ HT and it runs great! But I have no idea how it will scal

Re: [gentoo-user] 4/8 CPU Gentoo server

2006-02-08 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Iain Buchanan wrote: >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

Re: [gentoo-user] 4/8 CPU Gentoo server

2006-02-08 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bob Sanders wrote: >On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 15:52:01 -0800 >gentuxx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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

Re: [gentoo-user] 4/8 CPU Gentoo server

2006-02-08 Thread Bob Sanders
On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 15:52:01 -0800 gentuxx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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've been running it for years on a 4P PIII Xeon and my take is I won't r

Re: [gentoo-user] 4/8 CPU Gentoo server

2006-02-08 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 15:52:01 -0800 gentuxx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | 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. I run gentoo on a | P4 w/ HT and

Re: [gentoo-user] 4/8 CPU Gentoo server

2006-02-08 Thread Dale Kirkley
> 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. I run gentoo on a > P4 w/ HT and it runs great! But I have no idea how

Re: [gentoo-user] 4/8 CPU Gentoo server

2006-02-08 Thread Iain Buchanan
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 b

[gentoo-user] 4/8 CPU Gentoo server

2006-02-08 Thread gentuxx
-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. I run gentoo on a P4 w/ HT and it runs great! But I