Mailing List Archive: Installing on SMP box.

Installing on SMP box.

Sep 10, 2005, 2:02 AM

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Hi all!

I am to try a SMP install of Gentoo, and was wondering if there are any
specail flags i need to set to make it more specialized for that.
What is a good minimal but still flexible set of flags?
I dont want to set them all just to be able to install some more "specialized"
software later on. I like the minimmal/fast thought :)

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Re: Installing on SMP box. [ In reply to ]

jeff_donsbach at yahoo

Sep 10, 2005, 9:12 AM

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Rickard,

Do you mean in terms of kernel configuration options,
or CFLAGS/USEFLAGS in make.conf?

Jeff D

--- Rikard Johnels <rikard.j@rikjoh.com> wrote:

> Hi all!
>
> I am to try a SMP install of Gentoo, and was
> wondering if there are any
> specail flags i need to set to make it more
> specialized for that.
> What is a good minimal but still flexible set of
> flags?
> I dont want to set them all just to be able to
> install some more "specialized"
> software later on. I like the minimmal/fast thought
> :)
>
>
> --
> /Rikard
>
>
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> rikard.j@rikjoh.com
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> http://www.rikjoh.com
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Re: Installing on SMP box. [ In reply to ]

rikard.j at rikjoh

Sep 10, 2005, 11:42 AM

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On Saturday 10 September 2005 18.12, Jeff Donsbach wrote:
> Rickard,
>
> Do you mean in terms of kernel configuration options,
> or CFLAGS/USEFLAGS in make.conf?
>
> Jeff D
>
> --- Rikard Johnels <rikard.j@rikjoh.com> wrote:
> > Hi all!
> >
> > I am to try a SMP install of Gentoo, and was
> > wondering if there are any
> > specail flags i need to set to make it more
> > specialized for that.
> > What is a good minimal but still flexible set of
> > flags?
> > I dont want to set them all just to be able to
> > install some more "specialized"
> > software later on. I like the minimmal/fast thought
> >
> > :)
> >
> > --
> > /Rikard
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
> > Rikard Johnels email :
> > rikard.j@rikjoh.com
> > Web :
> > http://www.rikjoh.com
> > Mob : +46 (0)763 19 76
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CFLAGS/USEFLAGS.

The kernel comes later :)

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Re: Installing on SMP box. [ In reply to ]

jeff_donsbach at yahoo

Sep 10, 2005, 7:11 PM

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--- Rikard Johnels <rikard.j@rikjoh.com> wrote:
>
> CFLAGS/USEFLAGS.
>
> The kernel comes later :)

There really shouldn't be anything special in terms of
CFLAGS. Any multithreaded apps should add required
flags in their makes files.

For USE flags... I'm not sure... I've never installed
Gentoo on an SMP box. (anyone? Bueller? anyone?)

Jeff D

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Re: Installing on SMP box. [ In reply to ]

kloeri at gentoo

Sep 11, 2005, 7:16 AM

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On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 07:11:03PM -0700, Jeff Donsbach wrote:
>
>
> --- Rikard Johnels <rikard.j@rikjoh.com> wrote:
> >
> > CFLAGS/USEFLAGS.
> >
> > The kernel comes later :)
>
> There really shouldn't be anything special in terms of
> CFLAGS. Any multithreaded apps should add required
> flags in their makes files.
>
> For USE flags... I'm not sure... I've never installed
> Gentoo on an SMP box. (anyone? Bueller? anyone?)
>
> Jeff D
>
Just make sure to set MAKEOPTS="-jX" correctly and maybe USE="smp" if
you use gimp.

Regards,
Bryan Ã˜stergaard
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Re: Installing on SMP box. [ In reply to ]

jmaynard at gentoo

Sep 11, 2005, 7:22 AM

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On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 04:16:10PM +0200, kloeri@gentoo.org wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 07:11:03PM -0700, Jeff Donsbach wrote:
> > For USE flags... I'm not sure... I've never installed
> > Gentoo on an SMP box. (anyone? Bueller? anyone?)
> Just make sure to set MAKEOPTS="-jX" correctly and maybe USE="smp" if
> you use gimp.

Indeed. I've installed Gentoo on a couple of SMP boxes, and it Just Works,
as long as you remember to build the kernel with SMP support. You don't even
*have* to use MAKEOPTS="-j<number>", but if you don't, you won't exploit
more than one processor while building things.
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