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SubjectRe: Compiling options?
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 01:03:34PM -0500, Robert L. Harris wrote:

> Is there anything good written up on if this is the best way for our 4
> person admin team to keep managing this or should the boxes be custom
> tuned for specific groups of machines within reason? "What does it buy
> us" is one of the big questions as swapping out that many kernels and
> testing 5-8 different varriants is a big buyin on time.

Depends largely on the workload. Compiling a kernel targetted at
Athlon/Duron will factor in the 3dnow memory copying code which speeds
up bulk copies quite a lot. If your workload doesn't involve that much
memory copying, you'll likely not notice that much of a difference
though.

Dave

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