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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