From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from <gentoo-amd64+bounces-8047-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@gentoo.org>) id 1I3uyl-00058V-O6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 14:28:16 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l5SEQTWa009838; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 14:26:29 GMT Received: from nemesis.fprintf.net (nemesis.fprintf.net [66.134.112.218]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l5SEQR6R009833 for <gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org>; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 14:26:28 GMT Received: (qmail 5822 invoked by uid 210); 28 Jun 2007 10:26:26 -0400 Received: from 65.247.36.242 by nemesis (envelope-from <dang@gentoo.org>, uid 201) with qmail-scanner-1.25st (clamdscan: 0.90.2/3524. spamassassin: 3.1.8. perlscan: 1.25st. Clear:RC:0(65.247.36.242):SA:0(-3.5/5.0):. Processed in 15.422127 secs); 28 Jun 2007 14:26:26 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.5 required=5.0 Received: from aa-gw.nexthop.com (HELO ?10.68.253.168?) (dang@fprintf.net@65.247.36.242) by nemesis.fprintf.net with SMTP; 28 Jun 2007 10:26:10 -0400 Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] 3200+ -> X2 4000+ From: Daniel Gryniewicz <dang@gentoo.org> To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200706281216.59952.f.philipp@addcom.de> References: <ab2953b00706271905uf4ce73q640906be3a8a8fd2@mail.gmail.com> <200706280805.04721.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> <200706281216.59952.f.philipp@addcom.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 10:26:09 -0400 Message-Id: <1183040769.31393.200.camel@athena.fprintf.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-amd64+help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-amd64+unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-amd64+subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-amd64.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.11.4 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: a98fb2ac-20ae-454f-9dc4-2dbe358a528b X-Archives-Hash: 6562814d83fb1fa44e2313120b924259 On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 12:16 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: > Am Donnerstag 28 Juni 2007 08:05 schrieb Hemmann, Volker Armin: > > On Donnerstag, 28. Juni 2007, Fernando Boaglio wrote: > > > Hi guys, > > > > > > I bought a new X2 4000 processor and I have 2 questions: > > > > > > -- can I use the same cooler (my processor uses the deprecated Socket > > > 939) ? > > > > no. Btw, the if you buy 'the real thing' the dual cores come with a nice > > self-regulating cooler. And this boxed cpus are not much more expensive > > than a single cpu. > > > > > -- should I change a lot of attributes in my kernel .config file? > > > > enable smp. The rest should be fine. You can but don't have to enable > > multicore support. Don't enable numa. Have acpi enabled. > > Shouldn't he set the timer frequency to 250 or 300 as well? Not if it's going to be a desktop. Hires timers are not common in x86_64 in the kernel yet (no tickless support) so for now 1000 is still best for desktops. Daniel -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list