[sldev] First shot at building source.

[Kamilion]

On 5/4/07, Paul TBBle Hampson <Paul.Hampson at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 10:52:33AM -0500, Alan Grimes wrote:
> >>> 6. What i really need is a multithreaded client. I have a 1.2ghz dual
> >>> athlon... Getting a bigger machine would be pointless if I can only use
> >>> 1 CPU. =(
>
> >> Rice. (It is multithreaded.)
>
> > What do you mean by "rice"?
>
> > Multithreading is certainly and emphatically not enabled on Linux. --
> > not in the current release version at least. =(((
>
> http://web.archive.org/web/20060513022941/http://www.funroll-loops.org/
> is probably the most helpful background to this pejorative.
>

Personally, I'm getting a wee bit vexed at why certain people seem to
get their giggles over bashing gentoo/gentoo users.

Quoting a nice little article on LWN about Gentoo HPC Clusters:

"Gentoo's flexibility as a metadistribution means you can make
whatever you want from it without hacking and slashing all over the
place, as you may need to if starting from another distribution. Your
changes to the base configuration are easy to find, document, and
reproduce. You can even start out with something more minimal than a
Gentoo base system by taking advantage of Portage's ROOT support to
install only what you need to an arbitrary location (described in more
detail in this LWN article). I find this most useful for diskless
clusters. You can easily install to a location on an NFS server such
as /opt/cluster/, which the diskless nodes use as their filesystem
root. By using UnionFS to mount a read-only NFS root with tmpfs
layered on top, all of the nodes can use the same filesystem without
any concerns about multiple simultaneous writes. You can push only
security fixes using `glsa-check`, and with a single invocation of
`emerge`, you can manage full system updates to the server root or the
diskless root."

http://lwn.net/Articles/229770/


Flexible is good. What's wrong with CFLAGS="-Os -pipe" ?
And besides, there's always GRP packages.