From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 25 05:40:13 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F17F216A41F for ; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 05:40:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from almarrie@gmail.com) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.247]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF61A13C468 for ; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 05:40:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from almarrie@gmail.com) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c14so336774anc for ; Sun, 24 Jun 2007 22:40:13 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=ApOiWv9bF3QTXD1m8sho/6pW6l+3AdReFNLHTB/F0VJBQPFDMwz+1D4pS4SFoZ+JUYi7TzOQzFxHAX7ctedbnY0O4kLuuoPH9FwNret12cAHOpbBsCKrY/d+GJ6JUo5C94vYf1pI7CJae60EDfTG+zJYF37JDwW0MxFJlVqzXWY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=E+tP/vsAIewVIRkTslv0pWrrKcWfQACXZZXEn1LZL9ASNGtWzbGVKtMtErfWhhXZ6TonvIsv2eMBmpbqNt47Vrpbh3mCGb/gDLJ+KLAFjy3gZWKdHhjhbtFnW3oJADfVXlVfZ0SBBN29ozMG+DuqWj5wQrFGo4wzgSdmS6kRWRM= Received: by 10.100.91.6 with SMTP id o6mr2939935anb.1182750012626; Sun, 24 Jun 2007 22:40:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.9.14 with HTTP; Sun, 24 Jun 2007 22:40:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <499c70c0706242240n1c5f3177q7645ae97387db701@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 08:40:12 +0300 From: "Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri" To: "Martin Turgeon" In-Reply-To: <467EFF06.6020902@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <467EFF06.6020902@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which CPUTYPE for a dualcore Xeon on AMD64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 05:40:14 -0000 On 6/25/07, Martin Turgeon wrote: > Hi, > > I recently installed AMD64 6.2 Release on 2 PowerEdge servers, both with > dual core Xeon (3070 and 5110). I noticed when I was updating the > sources that it was compiling as an Athlonxp by default. I was wondering > if I should change the CPUTYPE in make.conf to something else. I read at > some places that it is not recommended because it could cause problems > but I thought it would be interesting to start the debate here. Please > note that I would prefer not to go with the -STABLE or -CURRENT branch > because these a going to be essential productions servers. > > Thank you for your opinions, > > Martin Since I use FreeBSD 7.0 AMD64 which is stable now and it's frozen for making RELENG_7 I didn't set the CPUTYPE in the make.conf , so I wonder how come you got athlon-xp cpu arch and I didn't see GCC 4.2 doing it in my server. -- Regards, -Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri Arab Portal http://www.WeArab.Net/