Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 10:44:55 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Ryan Rempel <rgrempel@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Good CPUTYPE setting for make.conf for mixed environment? Message-ID: <20050527174455.GA79637@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <fb5ec423050526183810fe6603@mail.gmail.com> References: <fb5ec423050526183810fe6603@mail.gmail.com>
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--qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 08:38:46PM -0500, Ryan Rempel wrote: > I've got several machines that I want to maintain identical > installations on. Some of them have athlon-xp CPUs and some have > pentium4's. >=20 > What would be a good CPUTYPE setting to use in make.conf? Would an > athlon-xp run well (or at all) if I used pentium4? Would a pentium4 > run well (or at all) if I used athlon-xp? No and no. > Or should I use a "lowest > common denominator" (and if so, what -- something like i686 perhaps?). I think i686 should be OK. > I guess the other question is whether I should worry about this at all > -- I've got no CPUTYPE setting in make.conf at the moment at all -- > would a more "tuned" setting actually make that much difference? Probably not much of one. More important are your kernel settings (e.g. not compiling your kernel with i386/i486 support). Kris --qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCl1yXWry0BWjoQKURAmxQAKDMWGnKRcLRJ+mqj3udq7i+/fmEdgCeKhCu PkmFnTsjL5LM3uSX3ohGy+o= =RgU7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk--
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