[gentoo-user] Dual Xeon HT Configuration and Installation questions

[Chris Conway]

So I got myself a dual xeon 2.6 with HT, 4gb RAM, and over a tb of hard 
drive space and I am looking to put gentoo on it.  Looking around the 
forums I saw very little good information about smp installation and 
Xeon's in particular.  So I thought I would ask you guys some questions 
and if all goes well and the system comes up I might write an install 
guide for SMP machines.

So here we go:
1) Any kernel variation suggestions and what should I enable/disable?
2) What is the deal with APIC?
3) What are the proper make settings (j8?)
4) I have booted once from the live cd (smp-noapic nofb) and only saw 
two processors in proc.  Is this normal given that I have HT enabled in 
the BIOS?  I thought HT just worked?
5) Anything else anyone thinks might be good to know before I start?

Any config files would be very welcome.

Thanks in advance!

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