[PLUG] Athlon performance
AthlonRob
athlonrob at data.4t3.com
Sat Dec 21 11:25:05 UTC 2002
On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 02:08, Bill Spears wrote:
> According to RH up2date, a kernel rpm built for the athlon (this machine
> is actually a Duron) is available. Will I get much of a performance gain
> by installing it and are there any gotchas I should know about?
Yes you'll get a little boost in performance - but the kernel is really
only one small part of performance... optimizing the big apps on the
system causes a greater increase in speed.
Gotchas:
RH Compiled the kernel likely with a bajillion wierd patches. I like
compiling my own kernel - I know exactly what is in it, what is enabled,
and nothing I don't want is there, eating up a few KB of RAM.
The kernel would likely be compiled with GCC 3.x in order to get any
real Athlon optimizations. I haven't had any problems with GCC 3.2
compiling kernels... but some have.
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