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From: Alecks Gates <alecks.g@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: x32 ABI
Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2012 18:09:33
Message-Id: CAKkyAYZ24Up2gnYRSFZDtUKpESgcs_HHV7saLJG5z2G1OnswHg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: x32 ABI by Alecks Gates
1 On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 11:16 PM, Alecks Gates <alecks.g@×××××.com> wrote:
2 -snip-
3 >
4 > I have just started the process of installing Gentoo from scratch on
5 > on my 2GB RAM machine, and am going to fully compare the two, probably
6 > using Phoronix Test Suite unless someone here can give me some other
7 > recommendations -- I don't do benchmarking and I like how you can do
8 > the comparisons with OpenBenchmarking.org. Hopefully Phornoix Test
9 > Suite runs properly, I suppose I'll have to install php and the like.
10 >
11 > Anyway, I don't think anyone addressed this. What would be the
12 > best/cleanest/quickest way to switch from x86-64 to x32 ABI? I'm
13 > planning on just backing up the partition once I've got the x86-64
14 > ready to go and doing a new from scratch install with x32... but I'd
15 > love to know about an easier way.
16 >
17 > Alecks
18
19 What would be the most worthwhile benchmarks to run, both inside and
20 outside of Phoronix Test Suite? I figured I should ask since I don't
21 have much knowledge on the subject and this stuff is new to me. Also
22 there is there some automated method of measuring RAM usage?
23
24 Alecks