Re: What are the best gcc optimization options for Pentium 200 MMX

2000-04-08 Thread Kenneth Wayne Culver
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Re: What are the best gcc optimization options for Pentium 200 MMX

2000-04-08 Thread David Malone
On Sat, Apr 08, 2000 at 09:25:16PM +0700, Alexey N. Dokuchaev wrote: > I'm trying to achive maximum performance of my FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE box, > and going to recompile kernel and world using -Os -pipe options. Is there > any additional flags I might consider turning on (like -mfast_math) to > ma

Re: What are the best gcc optimization options for Pentium 200 MMX

2000-04-08 Thread Matthew Dillon
: :Why exactly whould you not touch the -march options? I have had no :problems using them, and my system (5.0-CURRENT) seems a little faster :with -march=i686. I could be wrong though as I havn't done any exact :tests... it just seems a bit more responsive.. : :==

Re: What are the best gcc optimization options for Pentium 200 MMX

2000-04-08 Thread Kenneth Wayne Culver
Why exactly whould you not touch the -march options? I have had no problems using them, and my system (5.0-CURRENT) seems a little faster with -march=i686. I could be wrong though as I havn't done any exact tests... it just seems a bit more responsive.. ==

Re: What are the best gcc optimization options for Pentium 200 MMX

2000-04-08 Thread Matthew Dillon
:On Sat, 8 Apr 2000, Alexey N. Dokuchaev wrote: : :> AFAIK, Linux Mandrake has it's kernel and userland highly optimized for :> Pentium architecture. However, they have additional gcc optimization :> flags turned on by default, including -O3 and -mfast_math. : :Can you say "gimmick"? :-) gcc oft

Re: What are the best gcc optimization options for Pentium 200 MMX

2000-04-08 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, 8 Apr 2000, Alexey N. Dokuchaev wrote: > AFAIK, Linux Mandrake has it's kernel and userland highly optimized for > Pentium architecture. However, they have additional gcc optimization > flags turned on by default, including -O3 and -mfast_math. Can you say "gimmick"? :-) gcc often prod

Re: FreeBSD 3.3 fork/Exec bug?

2000-04-08 Thread Matthew Dillon
:> they connected to :> server and recieved nothing, yet the server does not register the :> connection or request for info. If I run the client independently (not :> via fork/execlp) everything works just fine. :> :> This code is deployed and operational on BSDi without a problem, so I :> ass

Re: desire for ftp.internat.freebsd.org mirror

2000-04-08 Thread Joshua Goodall
I can't get there. Latency & packetloss too high from my cable modem in NL. Amusingly the route goes through the US :) - J On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, David O'Brien wrote: > On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 12:47:16PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > I guess the thing to do is to make sure they have the same d

Re: bad memory patch?

2000-04-08 Thread Peter Wemm
Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 03:31:07PM +0100, Koster, K.J. wrote: > > > > > > Not trying to push this idea one way or the other, I'm just > > > curious as to WHY so many people think this is a "bad idea" > > > > > I can think of four things real quick: > > > > 1) Disks are muc

Re: FreeBSD 3.3 fork/Exec bug?

2000-04-08 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Sean Peck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000408 09:47] wrote: > Alfred, > > Here is the code being used. ew. :P There seems to be some problems in your tcp connect library... > while((result !=1)&&(result!=TCP_CONNECT_NONE)&&(timeout!=10)){ > result = tcp_get_conn(localhostname,port1,10,&sock1);

Re: FreeBSD 3.3 fork/Exec bug?

2000-04-08 Thread Sean Peck
Alfred, Here is the code being used. This is the Server Code, xxx are the IP of box, yyy is port this server is listening too passed to the client user_port = socket_config(); while (y<1){ if(!fork()){ printf("Starting Client %d\n",getpid()); close(user_port); execlp("./client","

Re: FreeBSD 3.3 fork/Exec bug?

2000-04-08 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Sean Peck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000408 07:58] wrote: > > I am having a bizarre problem with a system on FreeBSD. > > The system consists of a server who forks its clients. > When the clients are forked, they try to connect to the server and get > information. Unfortunately when they fork off (

RE: What are the best gcc optimization options for Pentium 200 M

2000-04-08 Thread Alexander N. Kabaev
I doubt Mandrake gets any significant performance boost from using gcc with optimisation levels beyond -O. They just use this "super optimised" to stand out from all other Linux crowd rather than for any practical purpose. It has been reported several times that optimisation levels O2 ang higher a

Re: What are the best gcc optimization options for Pentium 200 MMX

2000-04-08 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
FWIW, I understand that they carry pgcc (http://www.goof.com) which may be very risky under Linux. Linus doesn't even recommend the latest gcc because he likes to keep his kernel dependent on the old (non-standard) features. Look in the archives, I recall someone benchmarked the new gcc on this l

FreeBSD 3.3 fork/Exec bug?

2000-04-08 Thread Sean Peck
I am having a bizarre problem with a system on FreeBSD. The system consists of a server who forks its clients. When the clients are forked, they try to connect to the server and get information. Unfortunately when they fork off (fork/execlp), they say they connected to server and recieved nothi

What are the best gcc optimization options for Pentium 200 MMX

2000-04-08 Thread Alexey N. Dokuchaev
Hi! AFAIK, Linux Mandrake has it's kernel and userland highly optimized for Pentium architecture. However, they have additional gcc optimization flags turned on by default, including -O3 and -mfast_math. I'm trying to achive maximum performance of my FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE box, and going to recom

Re: How to make sure that I compile MD5 based system

2000-04-08 Thread Alexey N. Dokuchaev
On Sat, 8 Apr 2000, Chris D. Faulhaber wrote: > If a program links with libcrypt and libcrypt is linked to libscrypt (MD5 > version) instead of libdescrypt (DES version), then that program will use > MD5. > Got it. Thanks. Cheers, /* Alexey N. Dokuchaev, more commonly |

Re: How to make sure that I compile MD5 based system

2000-04-08 Thread Chris D. Faulhaber
On Sat, 8 Apr 2000, Alexey N. Dokuchaev wrote: > On Sat, 8 Apr 2000, Chris D. Faulhaber wrote: > > > On Sat, 8 Apr 2000, Alexey N. Dokuchaev wrote: > > > > > Hello! > > > > > > I am using FreeBSD 4.0. The thing is, that I want DES sources and > > > libraries hanging around (just in case), but

RE: make release + X

2000-04-08 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 31-Jan-00 R.I.Pienaar wrote: > > how do i incorporate the XFree stuff into a freebsd release so that > > it is in > > acceptable format for sysinstall? > > Download the binary packages from XFree86.org.. > > Someone was working on making the

Re: How to make sure that I compile MD5 based system

2000-04-08 Thread Alexey N. Dokuchaev
On Sat, 8 Apr 2000, Chris D. Faulhaber wrote: > On Sat, 8 Apr 2000, Alexey N. Dokuchaev wrote: > > > Hello! > > > > I am using FreeBSD 4.0. The thing is, that I want DES sources and > > libraries hanging around (just in case), but the whole system be MD5 based > > (including /sbin/init, other

Re: How to make sure that I compile MD5 based system

2000-04-08 Thread Chris D. Faulhaber
On Sat, 8 Apr 2000, Alexey N. Dokuchaev wrote: > Hello! > > I am using FreeBSD 4.0. The thing is, that I want DES sources and > libraries hanging around (just in case), but the whole system be MD5 based > (including /sbin/init, other utils, and correct links in /lib). I looked > at /etc/defaul

How to make sure that I compile MD5 based system

2000-04-08 Thread Alexey N. Dokuchaev
Hello! I am using FreeBSD 4.0. The thing is, that I want DES sources and libraries hanging around (just in case), but the whole system be MD5 based (including /sbin/init, other utils, and correct links in /lib). I looked at /etc/defaults/make.conf, but didn't and references of this kind, except

Re: desire for ftp.internat.freebsd.org mirror

2000-04-08 Thread Mark Murray
> > Mark Murray would know :-) > > > > I think there's a lot of stale cruft on ftp.internat.freebsd.org which > > doesn't need to be mirrored - Mark could probably tell us all which bits > > are suitable for mirroring (this should be documented somewhere for > > posterity) Mostly packages and di

postscript printer handshake problem

2000-04-08 Thread Zdenek Radouch
Problem: I don't know how to configure the spooler to properly handshake with a postscript printer (via standard parallel port). Background: I am trying to improve printer connectivity in my wife's graphic design office. The basic idea I had was to take the direct-attached postscript printers t