Re: Pentium 4 Optimizations

2002-12-12 Thread Gary Sandine
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 00:21, Jean Francois Martinez wrote: > > Perhaps Gentoo is more appropriate in this case than Red Hat?> > < > Perhaps. But that supposes that compiling with --march=pentium4 makes > much difference with gcc. I don't doubt it would make a real difference > with the Intel com

Re: Pentium 4 Optimizations

2002-12-12 Thread Jean Francois Martinez
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 04:02, Gary Sandine wrote: > On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 19:42, John wrote: > > However, if you wish to persist with building everything yourself, the > > the project for you is "Linux from Scratch." > > Perhaps Gentoo is more appropriate in this case than Red Hat? It's not > as e

Re: How to get RedHat 8.0 to allow core dump files

2002-12-12 Thread Dan Winslow
*blink* *blink* Thank you. - Original Message - From: "Binand Raj S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 10:09 PM Subject: Re: How to get RedHat 8.0 to allow core dump files > On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 09:48:19PM -0600, Dan Winslow wrote: > > cor

Re: How to get RedHat 8.0 to allow core dump files

2002-12-12 Thread Binand Raj S.
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 09:48:19PM -0600, Dan Winslow wrote: > core file size(blocks, -c) unlimited > This is in the current shell I am running programs from. It will not produce > a core dump file. The fault says : > Segmentation fault (core dumped) > So its trying to dump, but.no file

Re: How to get RedHat 8.0 to allow core dump files

2002-12-12 Thread Dan Winslow
Yep, /etc/profile is taken care of. Here's output from ulimit -a : core file size(blocks, -c) unlimited data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited file size (blocks, -f) unlimited max locked memory (kbytes, -l) unlimited max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited open f

Re: Pentium 4 Optimizations

2002-12-12 Thread Gary Sandine
> btw if a dual P4 isn't good enough, try dual Athlon. Apparently Athlons > eat Pentium IVs; sometimes even Durons outperform them. Dual P4 = dual Xeon, and a dual Xeon will thump on any dual Athlon system in any task I can think of. It used to be the case that uni-Athlon in general outperformed

Re: Pentium 4 Optimizations

2002-12-12 Thread Gary Sandine
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 19:42, John wrote: > However, if you wish to persist with building everything yourself, the > the project for you is "Linux from Scratch." Perhaps Gentoo is more appropriate in this case than Red Hat? It's not as extreme an approach as LFS, but with Gentoo, one can easily co

Re: Pentium 4 Optimizations

2002-12-12 Thread John
On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Tesla 13 wrote: > > > Even if I don't gain anything, I just don't want my binaries to run on a > > > bloody 386 SX. Period. > > > >If procinfo shows 91% idle (as it does on my Athlon), then how much is > >there to gain? 10% of 9% is bugger-all. > > I CPU used is about 3%. But

Re: Pentium 4 Optimizations

2002-12-12 Thread John
On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Tesla 13 wrote: > >Mind you, a lot can easily be gained if you have a lot of computers. > > 32 to be exact! Better than 1, but I think you need hundreds, not tens, to get a payoff. However, optimising some few packages - XFree, your preferred wm, OOo if you use it may be wor

Re: Pentium 4 Optimizations

2002-12-12 Thread Tesla 13
> Even if I don't gain anything, I just don't want my binaries to run on a > bloody 386 SX. Period. If procinfo shows 91% idle (as it does on my Athlon), then how much is there to gain? 10% of 9% is bugger-all. I CPU used is about 3%. But that really is not the point as I explained above. Did

Re: Pentium 4 Optimizations

2002-12-12 Thread Tesla 13
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Re: Pentium 4 Optimizations

2002-12-12 Thread John
On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Tesla 13 wrote: > Hello John, > > >What on earth do you hope to gain? > > Even if I don't gain anything, I just don't want my binaries to run on a > bloody 386 SX. Period. If procinfo shows 91% idle (as it does on my Athlon), then how much is there to gain? 10% of 9% is bu

Re: Pentium 4 Optimizations

2002-12-12 Thread John
On 12 Dec 2002, Florin Andrei wrote: > On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 14:09, John wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Tesla 13 wrote: > > > > > > I would like to adapt a Redhat 8.0 system to Pentium 4. The binaries, data, > > > files and everything will be used, run and compiled on P4. I have no issue > > >

Re: Pentium 4 Optimizations

2002-12-12 Thread John
On 12 Dec 2002, Florin Andrei wrote: > On a very busy web server, it makes sense to optimize httpd, but the > rest is a waste of time. > > Even then, I'm doubtful. More likely the bottleneck is the network interface. btw if a dual P4 isn't good enough, try dual Athlon. Apparently Athlons eat

Re: Pentium 4 Optimizations

2002-12-12 Thread Tesla 13
Hello John, What on earth do you hope to gain? Even if I don't gain anything, I just don't want my binaries to run on a bloody 386 SX. Period. It will takes days, maybe weeks on a single machine. gcc + glibc + kernel takes a mere 3 hours on my system to compile (2.66 GHz P4 OCed to 3.0, mo

Re: Pentium 4 Optimizations

2002-12-12 Thread Florin Andrei
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 14:09, John wrote: > On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Tesla 13 wrote: > > > > I would like to adapt a Redhat 8.0 system to Pentium 4. The binaries, data, > > files and everything will be used, run and compiled on P4. I have no issue > > with compatability and I do not need anything to

Re: How to get RedHat 8.0 to allow core dump files

2002-12-12 Thread Jag
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 18:54, Dan Winslow wrote: > Platform is a fresh install of RedHat 8.0. I have > ulimit -c unlimited > in /etc/profile. I have write perms to the current dir. A test program > compiled with gcc that does a 'strcpy(0,0)' seg faults but does not > core > dump. I have searched all

Re: Pentium 4 Optimizations

2002-12-12 Thread Florin Andrei
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 05:29, Tesla 13 wrote: > > I would like to adapt a Redhat 8.0 system to Pentium 4. The binaries, data, > files and everything will be used, run and compiled on P4. I have no issue > with compatability and I do not need anything to run on a 386, Pentium or > PIII -- only P4

i686 kernel build

2002-12-12 Thread Adam H. Pendleton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What is the proper method for building an i686 binary kernel RPM? Each time I try to build one, using `rpmbuild -bb -target i686-redhat-linux kernel-2.4.spec` I get compile errors (different errors depending on whether I have the vserver patches

How to get RedHat 8.0 to allow core dump files

2002-12-12 Thread Dan Winslow
Platform is a fresh install of RedHat 8.0. I haveulimit -c unlimitedin /etc/profile. I have write perms to the current dir. A test programcompiled with gcc that does a 'strcpy(0,0)' seg faults but does not coredump. I have searched all day on the web, finding nothing but ulimitsettings. Any

Re: anyone seen: krb5kt error

2002-12-12 Thread John
On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello > > No one on the redhat-list knows the answer to this ... Has any seen a > similar message: > > /usr/path/executable: invalid character 58 in exportstr for E:%s\\krb5kt" > > I cloned my RedHat 7 system disk with Ghost onto another hdd inst

Re: Pentium 4 Optimizations

2002-12-12 Thread John
On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Tesla 13 wrote: > Hello Folks, > > I would like to adapt a Redhat 8.0 system to Pentium 4. The binaries, data, > files and everything will be used, run and compiled on P4. I have no issue > with compatability and I do not need anything to run on a 386, Pentium or > PIII --

anyone seen: krb5kt error

2002-12-12 Thread craiskin
Hello No one on the redhat-list knows the answer to this ... Has any seen a similar message: /usr/path/executable: invalid character 58 in exportstr for E:%s\\krb5kt" I cloned my RedHat 7 system disk with Ghost onto another hdd installed on the same system. After taking the original hdd offl

Pentium 4 Optimizations

2002-12-12 Thread Tesla 13
Hello Folks, I would like to adapt a Redhat 8.0 system to Pentium 4. The binaries, data, files and everything will be used, run and compiled on P4. I have no issue with compatability and I do not need anything to run on a 386, Pentium or PIII -- only P4. Is there a location where I can read a