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On Thursday 15 December 2005 04:48, Patrick Lauer wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> |
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> I was wondering if there are any sane ways to optimize the performance |
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> of a Gentoo system. |
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> Overoptimization (the well known "-O9 -fomgomg" CFLAGS etc.) tends to |
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> make things unstable, which is of course not what we want. The "easy" |
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> way out would be buying faster hardware, but that is usually not an |
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> option ;-) |
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> |
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> So ... what can be done to get the stable maximum out of your hardware? |
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This should be obvious, but don't USE=debug globally. Last time I did that, it |
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made my Athlon64 3400+ with 1G of RAM feel like the 300MHz PII with 192M of |
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RAM I have. |
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