From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 10 15:25:28 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6A3816A41F for ; Sat, 10 Sep 2005 15:25:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from vms044pub.verizon.net (vms044pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.44]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C30B43D6A for ; Sat, 10 Sep 2005 15:25:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from [192.168.1.3] ([68.161.79.217]) by vms044.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2 HotFix 0.04 (built Dec 24 2004)) with ESMTPA id <0IML00NMOXI92CYL@vms044.mailsrvcs.net> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 10 Sep 2005 10:25:22 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 11:25:25 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger In-reply-to: <4322D3D2.4000001@cox.net> To: magikman Message-id: <4322FAE5.3050603@mac.com> Organization: The Courts of Chaos MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en References: <4322D3D2.4000001@cox.net> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050801 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make.conf and Nocona Xeon 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: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 15:25:29 -0000 magikman wrote: > I am trying to setup a server with two Nocona Xeons and can't decided > what flags I should use in my make.conf. I have looked at the example > make.conf that comes with FBSD-5.4, however, this has left me a tad bit > confused. I have also checked google for a possible answer, but some > people are using amd64 some are using nocona and some are just using > pentium4 for their CLFAGS. Do any of you know what the best combination > of flags would be for this processor? Or if any of you could post your > make.conf as an example i would greatly appreciate it. Set your CFLAGS to "-O2 -pipe", and add a "-march=pentium" if you're really motivated. People who try to use machine-specific compiler tunings like pentium4 or nocona have run into problems like the boot loader not working right. -- -Chuck