Gentoo Archives: gentoo-performance

From: Adam Petaccia <adam@×××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-performance@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-performance] Resources for Gentoo Desktop Performance Tuning
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 04:09:18
Message-Id: 1120190912.20915.0.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-performance] Resources for Gentoo Desktop Performance Tuning by Guillermo Ramhorst
1 Using -O3 has the potential to create large binaries that would occupy a
2 good amount of RAM, and there's a lot of question to whether or not the
3 binaries are actually faster on modern computers.
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5 On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 21:52 -0300, Guillermo Ramhorst wrote:
6 > Jonathan Smith wrote:
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11 > >Adam Petaccia wrote:
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14 > >>For responsiveness, I'd recommend the -ck kernel. Its tuned for desktop
15 > >>interactivity. ANd I hate to start a CFLAG war, but you say things are
16 > >>slow when switching windows, which means some stuff may be going in and
17 > >>out of swap...You didn't compile with the -O3 flag did you?
18 > >>
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22 > >i find that -O2 or -Os work well. -O3 just makes the programs too
23 > >freaking big
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27 > >smithj
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43 > Well, I think we have something here... I _did_ used -O3... so perhaps
44 > the key is -O2??
45 > ..and (I'm jumping to the floor to avoid being shot) I've been using a
46 > 3x RAM swap space that was defined by a previous Ubuntu install...
47 > perhaps I should resize it to 2x RAM?
48 > Tks again, Willy.
49 >
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51 Adam Petaccia <adam@×××××××××.com>

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