I would love to provide you guys with some bench marks question is how. Regards
> On Sat, 28 Jun 2014 15:38:22 +0200, you wrote: > >>My arguments for gentoo is more along the lines of optimization of the >>source code for ones hardware. > > Every now and then someone gets on the Fedora list > suggesting/demanding that they change some compiler flags or other > optimizations that the person has used on a distribution like Gentoo > and seen "significant" performance gains. > > The standard response is for the person to do some benchmarks that > prove the claimed improvement is real, and then it will be considered. > > So far, no one has come back with proof of improvements. > > For most use cases the OS is not a limitation, and expending effort to > improve things will not gain any significant improvements and may > possibly make things worse. > >>You mention CentOS and Red hat how optimized is the heart of the system >>for the hard ware its running on? > > What is there to optimize? > > Yes, the kernel and a few key libraries have internal code paths that > can optimize based on processor but the 64bit world is a fairly > uniform instruction set (unlike the 32bit Intel world) with the > exception being the SSE and AVX type extensions which aren't of much > use to the OS. > >>I for instance currently even though nothing is running on it have a vps >>with 2gb of ram and with no websites or db on there yet just the servers >>ram wise i use about 62mb. I look at the low memory foot print as an >>advantage in the sense that the rest of the ram can be used for more >>important things. > > That isn't so much optimizing for hardware as it is making sure you > are only running services/daemons/programs that you need for your > requirements, which is easy to do with any distribution. > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
