Walter, thanks for the useful tip. I've been looking to increase the efficiency of my server (Athlon XP (Thorton), 2400+ (2ghz), 133 fsb, 512mb pc2100), especially since now I've been looking at my log files I've noticed it's being hammered everyday by ssh break attempts.
On 5/26/05, Julien Cayzac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/26/05, Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One thing I haven't seen mentioned in this discussion is cpu-specific > > flags. Try doing a "cat /proc/cpuinfo" and see which of the flags are > > allowed in gcc. mmx, mmx2, sse, sse2, sse3 and various other stuff will > > speed things up. If you have any version of sse, remember "-mfpmath=sse". > > In addition to being valid CFLAGS, some of these items are valid USE > > flags as well. > > Using -fpmath=sse on early athlon-xp cpus is known to produce unstable > code, so beware :) > > Julien > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- - Mark Shields -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
