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Date:      Fri, 27 May 2005 19:33:10 +0100
From:      Chris <chrcoluk@gmail.com>
To:        Ryan Rempel <rgrempel@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Good CPUTYPE setting for make.conf for mixed environment?
Message-ID:  <3aaaa3a0505271133476b086a@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <fb5ec423050526183810fe6603@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <fb5ec423050526183810fe6603@mail.gmail.com>

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On 5/27/05, Ryan Rempel <rgrempel@gmail.com> 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? Or should I use a "lowest
> common denominator" (and if so, what -- something like i686 perhaps?).
>=20
> 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?

I would use i686 or pentium3 as a safe setting, assuming you not using
any real old 486 or 586 cpu's.

Chris



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