Re: Optimizing Debian

2002-12-12 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 08:41:22PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 06:09:30PM +0100, javier wrote: > > Hi, > > I am a new Debian user. I used to work in Mandrake and there the x86 > > packages are compiled for i586, while in Debian they are compiled for > > i386. From my expe

Re: Optimizing Debian

2002-12-12 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"javier" == fajavilc writes: javier> Hi, I am a new Debian user. I used to work in Mandrake and javier> there the x86 packages are compiled for i586, while in javier> Debian they are compiled for i386. From my experience, I javier> know you can improve the performance recompi

Re: Optimizing Debian

2002-12-11 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 06:09:30PM +0100, javier wrote: > Hi, > I am a new Debian user. I used to work in Mandrake and there the x86 > packages are compiled for i586, while in Debian they are compiled for > i386. From my experience, I know you can improve the performance > recompiling the kernel

Re: Optimizing Debian

2002-12-11 Thread David Z Maze
javier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am a new Debian user. I used to work in Mandrake and there the x86 > packages are compiled for i586, while in Debian they are compiled for > i386. From my experience, I know you can improve the performance > recompiling the kernel for your particular machine a

Re: Optimizing Debian

2002-12-11 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * javier [Wed, Dec 11 2002, 06:09:30PM]: > I am a new Debian user. I used to work in Mandrake and there the x86 > packages are compiled for i586, while in Debian they are compiled for Well, Mandrake invests lots of money into marketing, and creating of myths about large huge unbeatabl

Optimizing Debian

2002-12-11 Thread javier
Hi, I am a new Debian user. I used to work in Mandrake and there the x86 packages are compiled for i586, while in Debian they are compiled for i386. From my experience, I know you can improve the performance recompiling the kernel for your particular machine architecture, but I am not sure abou

Re: Optimizing debian for fast cpu?

2001-10-28 Thread nate
Arne Goetje said: > Are there other things what might make sense to tweak a bit to make > the (desktop) system run faster? i saw somewhere(forget where it was about 6 months ago) that changing the kernel source: asm-i386/pram.h - define HZ 1000 rather then 100 (note the above applies to kernel

Re: Optimizing debian for fast cpu?

2001-10-28 Thread dman
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 10:35:44AM +0800, Arne Goetje wrote: | Hi, | | Q: Does it make sense to recompile some packages from source if I | have a fast cpu? It depends ... | And if yes, when will it make sense? From PIII or Athlon? And what | kind of packages? X11? Gimp? Mozilla? CPU intensive p

Optimizing debian for fast cpu?

2001-10-28 Thread Arne Goetje
Hi, Q: Does it make sense to recompile some packages from source if I have a fast cpu? And if yes, when will it make sense? From PIII or Athlon? And what kind of packages? X11? Gimp? Mozilla? The kernel is 2.4.x and optimized for the architecture. Are there other things what might make sense t