From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 5 09:46:52 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCED9106567C for ; Thu, 5 Jun 2008 09:46:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from parish@magichamster.com) Received: from jedburgh.just4dns.com (jedburgh.just4dns.com [78.129.134.130]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 679B38FC1B for ; Thu, 5 Jun 2008 09:46:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from parish@magichamster.com) Received: from [86.143.65.186] (helo=movens.plus.com) by jedburgh.just4dns.com with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1K4C3A-00065I-6y for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2008 10:46:28 +0100 Received: from parish.endoftheinternet.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by postbag.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AC611CC6D for ; Thu, 5 Jun 2008 10:46:33 +0100 (BST) Received: from 213.1.249.253 (SquirrelMail authenticated user parish) by postbag.localdomain with HTTP; Thu, 5 Jun 2008 10:46:33 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <4665.213.1.249.253.1212659193.squirrel@postbag.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20080604232434.GA5456@osiris.chen.org.nz> References: <484713B6.2030503@magichamster.com> <20080604232434.GA5456@osiris.chen.org.nz> Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 10:46:33 +0100 (BST) From: "Mark Ovens" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.13 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Fuzioned-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner-ID: 1K4C3A-00065I-6y X-Fuzioned-MailScanner: Not scanned: please contact your Internet E-Mail Service Provider for details X-Fuzioned-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-Fuzioned-MailScanner-From: parish@magichamster.com X-Spam-Status: No X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - jedburgh.just4dns.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - magichamster.com X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Subject: Re: Effects of CPUTYPE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:46:52 -0000 On Thu, June 5, 2008 00:24, Jonathan Chen wrote: > In my personal opinion, the small gain you get is more than > overwhelmed by the big pain you get from setting CPUTYPE. Thanks Jonathan. I think I'll reinstall my 7.0 system from scratch and install the apps from packages rather than build from ports and see if that solves the problems. The thing is that the main "serious" use for this box is managing my digital photos - over 12GB of them - and it is getting increasingly difficult with the apps I choose to use becoming unreliable. I've really got to the point where I'm considering switching to Linux as I've tried Mandriva and all the apps I use that I'm having problems with on FreeBSD work just fine under Linux. I don't want to switch - I've been using FreeBSD for ~13 years (since 2.0.5) but since I ditched Windows nearly 2 years ago I need reliability. Regards, Mark