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 4.54) id 1Emy3O-0005xn-Fi for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 18:42:10 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBFIetsF008599; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 18:40:55 GMT Received: from elasmtp-kukur.atl.sa.earthlink.net (elasmtp-kukur.atl.sa.earthlink.net [209.86.89.65]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jBFIcAhk023204 for ; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 18:38:10 GMT Received: from [66.122.77.127] (helo=sarge.electronerdia.net) by elasmtp-kukur.atl.sa.earthlink.net with asmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EmxzV-0007xH-Oy for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 13:38:09 -0500 Received: from sheila.electronerdia.net (sheila.electronerdia.net [192.168.1.32]) by sarge.electronerdia.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E4F5FF1EE for ; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 10:38:08 -0800 (PST) From: John Myers To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Optimizing performance Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 10:38:09 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.9 References: <1134650885.4634.57.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1134650885.4634.57.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1185976.8coItsI77a"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200512151038.16119.electronerd@electronerdia.net> X-ELNK-Trace: 8839a2c17b2169aa1aa676d7e74259b7b3291a7d08dfec79f0efea47271830ab218fb5696330dc1c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 66.122.77.127 X-Archives-Salt: 580a6713-378f-456e-b95c-128b0a3f3155 X-Archives-Hash: 2f9ee63a35369f9d14625375037945f0 --nextPart1185976.8coItsI77a Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 15 December 2005 04:48, Patrick Lauer wrote: > Hi all, > > I was wondering if there are any sane ways to optimize the performance > of a Gentoo system. > Overoptimization (the well known "-O9 -fomgomg" CFLAGS etc.) tends to > make things unstable, which is of course not what we want. The "easy" > way out would be buying faster hardware, but that is usually not an > option ;-) > > So ... what can be done to get the stable maximum out of your hardware? This should be obvious, but don't USE=3Ddebug globally. Last time I did tha= t, it=20 made my Athlon64 3400+ with 1G of RAM feel like the 300MHz PII with 192M of= =20 RAM I have. =2D-=20 #=20 # electronerd, the electronerdian from electronerdia # --nextPart1185976.8coItsI77a Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2-ecc0.1.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDobgY61oU2vmzgqgRAlTzAKCCsxJw/x4klBpl5h0RVDjwWxxx2QCgx9fG kvDdeT/o1RBx3R5Pa3P080o= =AkhQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1185976.8coItsI77a-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list