From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 10 17:33:48 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A609116A595 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:33:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from almarrie@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.172]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FCC713C448 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:33:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from almarrie@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id o2so155246uge for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 09:33:46 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=gLGVsZpgef2s9Csr0IwWJADCWgugz6fPGcMiITEtukl7unTd85tTlW80xUhXSGbSg3tqWS2yjbeCb578kUSkm3GZeOyX7FNglSlj0yok4wloMJNInHTCJk0wPnxbj+aW8QOsx9LhaUA3OSPBIqbKlHgTaqmpaQcfvc+ctwj5Ntk= Received: by 10.67.99.1 with SMTP id b1mr734858ugm.1168450426065; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 09:33:46 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.66.255.10 with HTTP; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 09:33:45 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <499c70c0701100933g395016dasf90f41ef315e7dd7@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 20:33:45 +0300 From: "Abdullah Al-Marrie" To: "Garrett Cooper" In-Reply-To: <45A52132.60303@u.washington.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1439.192.168.125.134.1168359685.squirrel@webmail.dfwlp.org> <200701101004.23651.pieter@degoeje.nl> <45A4E04C.5020902@u.washington.edu> <2831.192.168.125.134.1168443983.squirrel@webmail.dfwlp.org> <499c70c0701100846h60111c35lafea7cd0b7b402c2@mail.gmail.com> <45A52132.60303@u.washington.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make.conf and building multiple kernels and worlds 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: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:33:48 -0000 On 1/10/07, Garrett Cooper wrote: > Abdullah Al-Marrie wrote: > > On 1/10/07, Jonathan Horne wrote: > >> gentlmen, thank you for these answers, i think ill find them useful. > >> > >> i did a some much needed reading into the names of the pentium > >> processors, > >> and apparently my p4-540 is a Prescott, and my xeon is a Prestonia. i > >> dont see anything in the eample-make.conf that mentions Prestonia.. what > >> would the best choice for that one be? just plain "pentium4" ? > >> > >> thanks, > >> jonathan > >> > > > > Sadly there is no good explination in the example when it comes to > > server apps like apache, mysql, and other apps. > > > > I mean what is the usage of using P4 of P3 when I compile mysql > > server? isn't prescott better even my cpu is xeon which is nocona. > Some Prescott processors were only 32-bit capable where a select few > were 64-bit capable. See: . > As for the prestonia chips, I *think* (not sure because IA64 was > released quite a few years back), that they are strictly 32-bit chips. > So, just to be safe I'd stick with pentium4, but be sure to enable SMP > and apic in the kernel as well in order to get hyperthreading. CNET PR: > . > -Garrett > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Mine is EMT64, but I use i386. Could you please tell me why P4 would be better for MySQL server or apache? -- Regards, -Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri Arab Portal http://www.WeArab.Net/