On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 05:29, Tesla 13 wrote: > > I would like to adapt a Redhat 8.0 system to Pentium 4. The binaries, data, > files and everything will be used, run and compiled on P4. I have no issue > with compatability and I do not need anything to run on a 386, Pentium or > PIII -- only P4. You would be much better off if you'll identify only those applications that really are CPU-intensive on your system, recompile only those and use them. If you do the analysis right, you'll be amazed to learn how very few apps are indeed CPU-intensive. On my home system, i use the packages that are already CPU-optimized by the distribution (kernel, glibc...); beyond that, i only optimize a few multimedia applications, because multimedia is my hobby and i have a few CPU hogs there (transcoding and video editing stuff). But i optimize nothing else, because there's no real need for that. On a very busy web server, it makes sense to optimize httpd, but the rest is a waste of time. Sure you can recompile and optimize everything, and use the most exotic compiler options, but the gain is microscopic. And sometimes it's a loss (think about the one-off kind of apps that get larger binaries after compiler optimizations and then they get slower to launch precisely because they get bigger). Common sense is strongly recommended. ;-) -- Florin Andrei "If you play the WinXP CD backwards, you get a satanic message." "That's nothing, if you play it forward, it installs WinXP." _______________________________________________ Redhat-devel-list mailing list Redhat-devel-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list
