Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 20:33:45 +0300 From: "Abdullah Al-Marrie" <almarrie@gmail.com> To: "Garrett Cooper" <youshi10@u.washington.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make.conf and building multiple kernels and worlds Message-ID: <499c70c0701100933g395016dasf90f41ef315e7dd7@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <45A52132.60303@u.washington.edu> References: <1439.192.168.125.134.1168359685.squirrel@webmail.dfwlp.org> <200701101004.23651.pieter@degoeje.nl> <45A4E04C.5020902@u.washington.edu> <2831.192.168.125.134.1168443983.squirrel@webmail.dfwlp.org> <499c70c0701100846h60111c35lafea7cd0b7b402c2@mail.gmail.com> <45A52132.60303@u.washington.edu>
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On 1/10/07, Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> wrote: > Abdullah Al-Marrie wrote: > > On 1/10/07, Jonathan Horne <jhorne@dfwlp.org> wrote: > >> gentlmen, thank you for these answers, i think ill find them useful. > >> > >> i did a some much needed reading into the names of the pentium > >> processors, > >> and apparently my p4-540 is a Prescott, and my xeon is a Prestonia. i > >> dont see anything in the eample-make.conf that mentions Prestonia.. what > >> would the best choice for that one be? just plain "pentium4" ? > >> > >> thanks, > >> jonathan > >> > > > > Sadly there is no good explination in the example when it comes to > > server apps like apache, mysql, and other apps. > > > > I mean what is the usage of using P4 of P3 when I compile mysql > > server? isn't prescott better even my cpu is xeon which is nocona. > Some Prescott processors were only 32-bit capable where a select few > were 64-bit capable. See: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_4#Prescott>. > As for the prestonia chips, I *think* (not sure because IA64 was > released quite a few years back), that they are strictly 32-bit chips. > So, just to be safe I'd stick with pentium4, but be sure to enable SMP > and apic in the kernel as well in order to get hyperthreading. CNET PR: > <http://news.com.com/2100-1001-843879.html>. > -Garrett > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Mine is EMT64, but I use i386. Could you please tell me why P4 would be better for MySQL server or apache? -- Regards, -Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri Arab Portal http://www.WeArab.Net/
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