Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 13:05:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 13:05:12 -0500 Received: from deviant.impure.org.uk ([195.82.120.238]:58566 "EHLO deviant.impure.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 13:05:06 -0500 Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 18:16:05 +0000 From: Dave Jones To: Linux-Kernel Subject: Re: Compiling options? Message-ID: <20030325181558.GA8068@suse.de> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Linux-Kernel References: <20030325180334.GH15678@rdlg.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030325180334.GH15678@rdlg.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 957 Lines: 21 On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 01:03:34PM -0500, Robert L. Harris wrote: > Is there anything good written up on if this is the best way for our 4 > person admin team to keep managing this or should the boxes be custom > tuned for specific groups of machines within reason? "What does it buy > us" is one of the big questions as swapping out that many kernels and > testing 5-8 different varriants is a big buyin on time. Depends largely on the workload. Compiling a kernel targetted at Athlon/Duron will factor in the 3dnow memory copying code which speeds up bulk copies quite a lot. If your workload doesn't involve that much memory copying, you'll likely not notice that much of a difference though. Dave - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/