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

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