On 05 Jun 2003 12:29:57 +0100 "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 10:41, Ross Macintyre wrote: > > > But now I've got your attention, you could help me with one more thing: > > could you tell me what the side effects of running a generic i686 > > kernel on an athlon processor would be? > > A few bits and pieces relating to improved performance for those CPUs. > It enables cache-bypass streaming page clear/copy, but not much else; > and without the athlon kernel, you still get MMX-based page operations > (not quite as fast as the athlon-dedicated ones, but still > accelerated.) It also results in a kernel compiled with gcc optimising > its instruction scheduling and function alignment for athlon. So it's a > bit of a performance boost. Thanks for that information Stephen. I'm now in the difficult position of wondering whether to use the athlon up-to-date kernel(2.4.20-18.8smp) or the i686 older kernel(2.4.18-27.8.0smp) [or recompile my own]? (I prefer to use generic kernels and not bother recompiling). The reason I'm considering the older kernel is that the newer kernel seems to break the 2 bits of software that I want to run to manage my raid configuration, that is megamgr and /etc/init.d/raidmon[MegaCtrl/MegaServ] to manage an LSILogic Megaraid SCSI 320-2. Maybe I need to use the older athlon kernel but I'm not sure if RedHat makes these available? I only have the i686 version of the older kernel. Could you advise please? Do Ineed to wait for LSILogic to update their software or wait for a RedHat kernel that runs megaserv and megamgr? Thanks aagain, Ross -- Ross Macintyre Heriot-Watt University raz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
