From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Mar 26 9:45:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from rheingold.navi.net (pdx-pm-p005.navi.net [209.188.52.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 301AB15077 for ; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 09:45:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wcooley@nakedape.navi.net) Received: from localhost (wcooley@localhost) by rheingold.navi.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id JAA09282; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 09:45:00 -0800 Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 09:44:59 -0800 (PST) From: "W. Reilly Cooley" X-Sender: wcooley@rheingold To: Stuart Henderson Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Need help fine-tuning a web server (fwd) In-Reply-To: <36FBAE8F.17384C3F@eclipse.net.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > Does -m486 also help on Pentium or Pentium II systems ? > > Yes it does. If you don't include it then gcc will only use instructions > that also work on 386's - enabling 486 optimizations will allow the use > of some extra opcodes that weren't available for 386's that can speed up > some operations. Does anyone consider the egcs or pgcc Pentium (and greater) optimizations stable enough for a production server? I ran my workstation last summer with fully (ridiculously?) PGCC-optimized C libraries and a few other parts, and had no problems, but that's isn't exactly "production", although for the little work it did it was up 24x7. Wil -- W. Reilly Cooley wcooley@nakedape.navi.net Naked Ape Consulting http://nakedape.navi.net Internet Meta-Resources: http://nakedape.navi.net/meta-res/ "All the Net you need to be a geek" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message