Good CPUTYPE setting for make.conf for mixed environment?

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Fri May 27 10:44:08 PDT 2005


On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 08:38:46PM -0500, Ryan Rempel wrote:
> I've got several machines that I want to maintain identical
> installations on. Some of them have athlon-xp CPUs and some have
> pentium4's.
> 
> What would be a good CPUTYPE setting to use in make.conf? Would an
> athlon-xp run well (or at all) if I used pentium4?  Would a pentium4
> run well (or at all) if I used athlon-xp?

No and no.

> Or should I use a "lowest
> common denominator" (and if so, what -- something like i686 perhaps?).

I think i686 should be OK.

> I guess the other question is whether I should worry about this at all
> -- I've got no CPUTYPE setting in make.conf at the moment at all --
> would a more "tuned" setting actually make that much difference?

Probably not much of one.  More important are your kernel settings
(e.g. not compiling your kernel with i386/i486 support).

Kris
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