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Subject: Re: Performance issue amd64
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Dinesh Nair wrote:
> 
> 
> On 08/10/06 15:24 O. Hartmann said the following:
>> than a 100 minutes, Firefox and/or Thunderbird opens much slower than 
>> before and much slower as compared to the i386 box(!).
> 
> i'd suspect the harddisk. are you building world with pipes, for this 
> would store the intermediae files during compilation on disk, making the 
> build slightly more disk bound.
> 


Thanks for your reply.
I think I see an option '-pipe' when building kernel and world - it's 
the standard I guess.

oh