On Fri, 2002-08-02 at 07:48, Seth Mos wrote:
> At 14:41 2-8-2002 +0200, Dirk Munzinger wrote:
> >Hi Seth,
> >>I just thought of something. What flags are you passing for optimization?
> >>I know that compiling with i586 is sometimes faster but I believe not
> >>everything works OK. Can you check this by compiling for i486?
> >>The K6 cores were also faster with 486 optimizations for me then with
> >>i586.
> >
> >I have compiled the kernel now with i486 optimization instead of K6 and -
> >believe it or not - it looks fine now. If have just run some rsyncs
> >without any problem. I will do some more tests over the weekend and I hope
> >they will also work.
>
> Okidoki. It's because I worked with a few K6 chips in the past that I know
> how they behave. They are not bad just peculiar.
>
> But that can be said from some Dell Intel hardware as well ;)
>
> Cheers
>
Thanks Seth for pursuing this one.
Steve
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