> What do you think. Will I get better performance if I turn on NPTL on a > AMD 1800+ Athlon XP 512MB RAM. I use this machine for desktop purposes. > KDE, XMMS, Firefox, Tvtime, Kdevelop, Wesnoth, K3B, some audio- video > recording and so on.
NPTL performs better than the legacy linuxthreads, so yes use NPTL. Most of the packages that you listed will take advantage of threads (qt relies on threads and, since kde is built on top of qt, it will be used). Those apps that do not use threads will not see much (if any) advantage of threads (unless the underlying libraries they depend upon take advantage of them). So in general, yes you should have thread support on your system (especially any processor PIII or newer), and should have NPTL at least. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
