On 2016/03/16 13:42, Peter Kay wrote: > It's not an AVX instruction, as Wireshark runs on a Core2Duo pre Sandy > Bridge when AVX arrived. > > I agree that it looks too heavy for a P2, and last time I ran it under > *nix it would have been the gtk version, I was surprised at all the > dependencies it pulled in. > > This issue is only likely to get worse, is it wise to do a CPU check, > and refuse to install some packages?
Sorry I read your mail too quickly and missed the "pentium ii" mention, I have a diff on ports@ to disable various cpu features that Qt5 had autodetected which should help this.