Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Mar 2003 18:16:05 +0000 | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: Compiling options? |
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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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