Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 01:16:22 -0500 (EST) From: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> To: Justin L Boss <jlboss@yahoo.com> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Performance 686 - 386 Message-ID: <20020307011204.M17911-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> In-Reply-To: <3C86A1E0.5040104@yahoo.com>
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In my /etc/defaults/make.conf file, the line for CPUTYPE is commented out. # Currently the following CPU types are recognised: # Intel x86 architecture: # (AMD CPUs) k7 k6-2 k6 k5 # (Intel CPUs) p4 p3 p2 i686 i586/mmx i586 i486 i386 # Alpha/AXP architecture: ev6 pca56 ev56 ev5 ev45 ev4 # [snip]compiled with processor-specific (or higher - see below) optimization flags. # If in doubt, do not set CPUTYPE or CFLAGS to non-default values. #CPUTYPE=i686 #NO_CPU_CFLAGS= true # Don't add -march=<cpu> to CFLAGS automatically #NO_CPU_COPTFLAGS=true # Don't add -march=<cpu> to COPTFLAGS automatically Does this matter? Or is this option/parameter obtained from the current kernel or something...? FreeBSD san.rr.com 4.5-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE #0: Mon Jan 28 14:31:56 GMT 2002 murray@builder.freebsdmall.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386 (On an AMD Athlon 600MHz, 512mb RAM) -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Justin L Boss wrote: > Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> > Received: from mail3.registeredsite.com (mail3.registeredsite.com > [64.224.9.12]) > by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8565528E34 > for <pete@cloud9.net>; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 22:47:51 -0500 (EST) > Received: from mail.video2video.com (mail.video2video.com [209.35.10.22]) > by mail3.registeredsite.com (8.11.6/8.11.4) with ESMTP id > g272qfx18443 > for <pete@cloud9.net>; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 21:52:41 -0500 > Received: from mx2.freebsd.org [209.35.10.22] by mail.video2video.com > (SMTPD32-6.06) id A2E618F60086; Wed, 06 Mar 2002 22:47:50 -0500 > Received: from hub.freebsd.org (hub.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.18]) > by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP > id 17CF65578B; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 19:45:07 -0800 (PST) > (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) > Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 538) > id BD37F37B416; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 19:45:03 -0800 (PST) > Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) > by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP > id 94FBD2E8009; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 19:45:03 -0800 (PST) > Received: by hub.freebsd.org (bulk_mailer v1.12); Wed, > 6 Mar 2002 19:45:03 -0800 > Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Received: from smtp011.mail.yahoo.com (smtp011.mail.yahoo.com > [216.136.173.31]) > by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CEA6D37B404 > for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 19:45:01 -0800 (PST) > Received: from jlboss (AUTH plain) at wks-94-207-167.kscable.com (HELO > yahoo.com) (jlboss@24.94.207.167) > by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 6 Mar 2002 23:07:03 -0000 > Message-ID: <3C86A1E0.5040104@yahoo.com> > Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 17:10:24 -0600 > From: Justin L Boss <jlboss@yahoo.com> > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:0.9.4) > Gecko/20011126 Netscape6/6.2.1 > X-Accept-Language: en-us > MIME-Version: 1.0 > To: FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> > Subject: Performance 686 - 386 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > List-ID: <freebsd-questions.FreeBSD.ORG> > List-Archive: <http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/>; (Web Archive) > List-Help: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=help> (List Instructions) > List-Subscribe: > <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=subscribe%20freebsd-questions> > List-Unsubscribe: > <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=unsubscribe%20freebsd-questions> > X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Precedence: bulk > > Is there a considerable difference in performance when you compile your ports as a 686 rather then a 386? I know that you can move data faster with 686 instruction set but can you see a difference at all? Take for instants Samba, will it be able that handle more people, write and read faster. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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